We left the house of Monsieur and Madame Saloman (they don’t make boots) but monsieur does make his own delicious smoked sausage. We had a very good dinner.
The morning starts and it’s off up the wooded slope steeply!to almost 900m
Then across along roads into Pontalier. Vuillesans a little village on the way has a poo elevator by the church
Pontarlier is the home of Absinthe. It used to be the active ingredient in various lethal, turn of the century replacements for wine, when phyloxerra wrecked the wine producing abilities of France. The absinthe producers such as Pernod and Ricard turned to less toxic alternatives. Some such as Guy who we visited in town, survived by producing herbal alcoholic beverages until showing that in moderation (levels a tenth of previous) safe products could be produced.
Where does the Green Fairy come in? Absinthe is bitter many like some sugar to sweeten it. This is difficult to add as it crystallises the absinthe. This the spoon and the dripping of iced water into the spirit. The resultant cloudy greenish mixture can when under the influence of both neuro active substances look like a green fairy in the. glass.
We left the distillery HAPPY. And set off shopping and back to camp for dinner.
Ray flew back from UK yesterday and met us just in time for the distillery trip. Surprising? No all planned!