Thursday, July 2, 2009

Nantes






So this is late but more for myself, a sort of list of what we did in Nantes with Melanie.

House of Jules-Verne, I elieve he wrote 1000 Leagues under the sea
1966 Titan Crane, yellow
Tour Bretagne
Les Machines de L'ile and the 36 foot tall elephant
Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Port, aka L'eglise Saint-Louis, the first one we saw, beautiful!
Quai de la Fosse
Ile Feydeau, used to be an island b/c rivers used to stream through Nantes but have since been covered and made into roads. This 'island' had very sketchy foundation and you could tell just by looking at the houses whose floors no longer lined up straight.
Passage Pommeraye
Place Royale, fountain, Amorino ice cream, Melanie is stubborn and made it her treat.
l'elglise Saint Nicolas
Old Feltre Market, beautiful indoor shopping area where we did some window browsing
Theatre Graslin, evidently a good hangout spot
Cours Cambronne, the fancy neighborhood that's public although they will occasionally hush you, tsk on them.
New Palais de Justice
Rue de Carmes Apothecaries House, old style 15th century timber frame, also crooked foundation
Cours de 50- Otages, alle de tannerus- blue tree people display!
Cathedrall Saint Pierre Saint Paul, beautiful, where Melanie's parents got married
Entree du chateau des ducs the Bretagne, Palace of the dukes of Brittany, castle!
LU tower, famous Nantes cookie manufacturer
Cours Saint Pierre Stairs, monument to the soldiers (Nantes has some strong WWII history)
Watching the TV show Pascal, saving France one family at a time
The online trivia game her family played, hilariously fun to watch the tensions rise as they tried to beat the clock. Her brother Ben and sister Mathilde got especially into it!
Drinking Kerisac, a cidre of Bretagne. I bought a bolee, a small cup used for drinking said cider but now no longer have the Kerisac.
The delicious meals and awesome conversation and aperitif, especially when taken outdoors in their beautiful garden.

Melanie and her father took me on an out of Nantes excursion
We went to Guerande and explored the walled in older city. Had delicious galletes and crepes for lunch.
We checked out the Marais Salante, or salt fields/marshes; Guerande is famous for harvesting salt. It was kind of freaking awesome.
We then drove to Le Croisic with it's beautiful harbor and sail boats
Le Pouliguen where we walked around the beach and boardwalk, ate niniche (a candy)
La Baule, drove along the boardwalk, I love the sea!
Pornichet


I know I'm not doing it justice but I don't want to forget what we did and I just found the paper that had it all written down.
I had a BLAST with Melanie and her family!

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