B&B Nantes Aeroport Bouguenais

So decided to stay a second day in Nantes....hotel was in fab location, but loads of bars right outside the hotel, thank goodness for double glazed windows!

Went to the local saturday market this morning, geez, i love the french markets. took us about 20 mins walking around just to figure out what to eat.

Off to see the chateau this afternoon then maybe to a soccer game (Nantes vs. Nimes) this evening.

Chateau ...

Ok, so we arrived in Nantes....bit of a nightmare to park, but all good. Found a very centrally located budget hotel (1 star) - cheap and cheerful. We had booked the small room, but as that turned out to be on the fifth floor, we opted for the luxury room (an additional 4 euros a night) on the first floor. Is quite big, with ensuite bathroom. Well, actually, its more like the room is ensuite to the bathroom as when u open the door to the room u walk right into the ...

... after tearing that apart we had some wonderful clips to work with. Sewing them together with some spare nylon cord made a great synch strap for the bag.

Our compression bags are also showing some wear. Brain is so good as compressing them as tight as possible that the material is beginning to rip. This is easily repaired with some more nylon chord as well. Hopefully this will last us for a little while longer!

... and monsters on display. They all have the style of a Jules Verne story (he came from Nantes). The craftmanship is wonderful and the detail is incredible. We will return in 2014 as they are building an enormous tree with plants and a ride on mechanical herons. Much better than Disney.

We are going south tomorrow to La Rochelle.

... his shoulder into my stomach. haha It was painful but still really funny. The afternoon classes were awesome as normal. They all did really well on their tests. I think there was maybe 4 Cs out of the two classes. Jeremy kept yelling at me to come over and talk about his test. When I finally got there, he goes "April, I got a B, is that good? Are you really proud of me?" haha it was so cute how important it was to him that I ...

... took the entire 45 minutes. With all of my other classes this same song took 10 minutes. That's how awful they are. Whatever. I got to have my little kids for the afternoon and it was great. They took tests, and I think they did a really good job on them. In my first class when everyone was pretty much finished, I was watching Julien and Hugo play tic-tac-toe and they were trying to tell me the name in French and I was just not saying it right. Hugo finally ...

... devil, but like I said before you just have to act the right way with the French. I was really nice and so was the lady dealing with me. She asked me how I liked France so far, blah blah blah. So I had everything set and she set up another appointment to actually get my card. Guess when I get that? In March. I went in for an appointment in October, didn't get one until the end of December, and now I have to wait until March for them to put a card together. This ...

... park. She's like a Disney Nazi and she had to get a fastpass for Space Mountain before we could enjoy the park. Space Mountain ended up being closed for the time being, so we got passes for Buzz Lightyear's ride. Then we walked around and went on a few rides. We went on Star Tours, which is apparently at Disney but I'd either never heard of it or forgot it was there. It was so much fun. C-3PO spoke French and it was so hilarious. I took a video of it. I'm not sure if I'm ...

... had no idea how hard this would be for them. So instead of doing all the stuff I had planned, we just played games to review the numbers. We will probably do this next time we have class too. The other class came in and they were just awful. I couldn't believe it. I was so mad that I had a great day and then the class that usually cheers me up was ruining it. I guess it wasn't all bad though. When I put my phone number on the board this one kid rushed to write it down and ...

... is the only thing there. - Bread is eaten with absolutely every meal, and is put directly on the table, since it accompagnies the meal rather than being part of it. - Everyone comes home for lunch, including the kids from school and the parents from work. I typically am just supposed to eat breakfast and dinner with them, so I don't, however. - Cars park on the sidewalk. This is perfectly acceptable. - Air-conditioning ...