Thursday, October 17, 2013

15 octobre 2013: Nantes, France

MARDI
Woke up to raindrops on the window. Wires.
Jardin des Plantes. 
A sleeping chick.
La Plage Verte (The Green Beach).
Guy changing the bus shelter advertisement. Looking across the Erdre River.
Cathédrale Saint Pierre et Saint Paul de Nantes.
Nantes Flag and Brittany Flag. City worker removing graffiti.
Château des ducs de Bretagne.
Plane heading to the Nantes Airport. School group crossing the castle courtyard.
The LU tour from the castle. Visited an exposition in the castle's museum on Nantes from the beginning of WWI to the end of WWII... this is a soldier's draft notice for WWI.
A notice declaring the fourth of July 1918 as a holiday in Nantes to thank the American soldiers for their support. Pétain Marshal propaganda.
The Nantes seal.
Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery.
The Cathedral off in the distance. The Erdre River.
Where I lived and where I studied seven years ago.
Comics and CDs for sale.