Blogs from Sutton, Quebec, Canada, North America

For my birthday, Robert and Dominique took the boys for the weekend so Claude and I could do a mini get away. We decided to go to the Eastern townships. Friday night when we arrived, there was a cake for me and the boys wanted it covered with as many candles as possible. You could feel the heat off it! Saturday morning, my birthday, we headed out to the Townships. Claude had made a reservation in Lac Brome (used to be called Knowlton) at an Inn that has been a hotel since the mid 1800s. It was cute. Felt just like the roadside Inn it had been forever. The restaurant had a great menu yet the decore felt like a roadside tavern too. Relaxed, but very good food. Our hotel package included tours of some of ... read more

Jon and I decided to drive over to the Eastern Townships which are located around an hour and a half East of Montreal. The Eastern Townships are small villages which were originally home to a lot of American loyalists who fled the US after the American War of Independence and settled north of the border. Because of this some parts have remained quite English-speaking. We got to Knowlton on Lac Brome around 5pm (we watched England lose the 6 Nations before leaving Montreal and then got lost because Jon decided to get a map based on the postcode and not the address...). We then went for a horse sleigh ride in the countryside before heading back to the hotel for a gourmet dinner. The dinner was delicious and we both sampled the local speciality of Canard ... read more