Contreau. Beaune. Mulhouse-France

Sorry I haven't posted in a couple days we are constantly on the move and this hostel has horrible wifi. We have been visiting cheese factories and wineries, eating at delicious restaurants and have been doing a lot of traveling. After the study tour is over we will have traveled 1400 km across France. Today we made our way to Germany and now I'm sitting on the floor in the hostel (which is awesome compared to the previous ones because we have a loft in our room and our own toilet)writing this post. So here it goes, the last couple of days...

Blackcurrant mustard and ketchup. Not a fan

"The fruirouge farm was the first adventure we took outside of Dijon about 45 minutes away in a village called Concourse. We drove up to the farmers home and he took us up to where his 13 hectares of blackcurrant or "le casis" . Le Casis is produced from a blackcurrant fruit tree and is a french delicacy used to make liqueur, jams, syrup, and butter. The blackcurrant is the most popular and the owner of the farm let us try samples of the 18% and 34% proof le Casis. His farm has been in his family for 9 generations, but he is the first generation to sell the liqueur and jams produced from his crops directly to the consumer. As he says in France it is not about marketing to people, but making your product the most high quality possible and then the consumers will come. He said that he has never paid for publicity, and the only way people have found out about his business is word of mouth. Le casis is used to sweeten very dry white wine and gives it just the right amount of sweetness for an appetizer drink."

So much jam! We also tasted cassis flavored Dijon mustard, man that stuff was gross.

Me, Anna, and Lauren at some place I cant remember the name of. I don't think this was part of the tour; pretty sure our driver got lost.

The closest I've ever been to a cow.

Beaune-hospital built in 1443. The people in this town still used it as a hospital up until the 1980s!

Lauren and her croque monsieur (ham sandwich with melted cheese on top)

Pizza with mushrooms, olives, and ham

Cherry tart

pistachio and vanilla ice cream

Mustard tasting at Edmond Fallot- blackcurrant mustard, tarragon mustard, balsamic mustard and classic Dijon. All disgusting. I can eat yellow mustard with a spoon but Dijon mustard is filthy.

 steak and fries

Wine tasting at the 'viti' school in Beaune.

A little Guinness and Grimbergen Rouge to end the day at an Irish pub in downtown Dijon.