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Love Good Beer goes international

Monday, April 5th, 2010 | Beer | 2 Comments

My wife and I moved to London, England last week.  We’ve been staying with my gracious great aunt in Guildford, Surrey, an accessible train ride from the city. We’ll hopefully be able to continue doing so until we find our own flat (British for apartment), which will hopefully be soon.  It is true that everyone here talks funny and drives on the wrong side of the road, but I suppose we should be thankful the British sent all of their smart, good looking people to Canada (and their dumb and ugly to the US) 400 or so years ago to improve upon their language and culture.  Even though Canada is eleven times better than the UK, we decided to come experience the old country and the rest of Europe before we became bored enough to try having babies.  In all seriousness now, it was time for a change in our commute heavy and not entirely fulfilling lives, so here we are.  I mean no offense to people who have babies (we’ll be them soon enough) and very little offense to the UK (come on, it isn’t perfect here).

What does this mean for LoveGoodBeer.com?  Not a whole heck of a lot really.  We’ll continue blogging, Erik from Vancouver and myself from here.  And while I’ll miss the burgeoning BC beer scene, there will be plenty of new beer experiences for me to have and write about.  I’ve already been to two British pubs (the Lamb and Flag and the Grantley Arms) and sipped real ale, but I also plan to visit Belgium, Oktoberfest, and more of the UK, including the GBBF, in the coming months.  Erik plans to visit twice too, meaning our entire staff of writers will be reunited, however briefly, across the pond.  Back to things that I’ll miss, I don’t know how I’m going to live without Brewery Creek and the Alibi Room, not to mention my friends and family, for however long we’re over here.  Hopefully the experiences will make up for any sense of loss, but I’ll just have to hope everything isn’t too different when I get back.  I will miss Vancouver and those close to me there dearly.

Cheers,

Chris

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