Britotel Nantes

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 ...

... that is my other half (ie Jamie), and never been keen to raise my head above the proverbial parapet. But for the historic reason of the jasonandjamie blog (or is it named the other way around?), I think I need to make an exception. There are of course, a couple more reasons for this...
1. Jamie can't spell.
2. I don't want a one sided blog...
3. **** stories have got to be curtailed..
4. Jamie is getting too verbose about our trip (I mean, who wants to ...

Right, so its time for some warmer times, so we are heading south today. I think we could end up in Nantes, but not really sure yet.....the south of France is pushing 80 degrees still so we need to get down there......Jason seemed to have lost the knack of the trunk packing, probably since we spent 2 nights in the same place. His french is funny, he tried to order the bill the other night and ended up with a beer. Ok, wait, maybe that had nothing to do with his french ...

... 4) gaze as the sky turns from grey to white to peach until finally golden shafts of light pierce through the trees…and the list goes on and on!

Amazingly the sky was clear blue by 9am. The last few mornings it has taken until noon before the fog has burned off. We’re in for some scorching days ahead, but this is what we’ve been waiting for!

Decided to veer off the canal about 50km before ...

... him. He got so mad at me that at the end of class he told me that he didn't like me and he was going to talk to his mother and he wouldn't be in class Friday. UGH. Then my other school's class was a little more awful than usual. At least I had Julien's class to cheer me up in the afternoon.

June 9, 2009

My older kids classes were alright, but nothing really that special. Worse than usual I'd say. Then in the afternoon I went to the Caf, which is pretty much like ...

... one and some girl puts my name in the computer and I have to go upstairs and wait for my "appointment." After waiting a while, one guy is free so I go up to him and explain what's going on. He hears my bad accent and the fact that my friend is Canadian, and he starts speaking perfect English to me. He was SO nice. He's been all around the US and I think he was really excited to speak English to me. It was great. He took care of everything, and then I headed to the library. I got some ...

... t feel like I have anyone else here that I can just do nothing with. Rachel probably. Eugenie maybe. Steph maybe. These next two months will be very interesting without my girls. I got back to Rach's and we had some tea. It's the first Sunday of the month so all the museums are free. I haven't decided if I want to go to any. I've already done two loads of laundry and need to do two more. So I may just hang out here today and get some stuff done. We'll see.

... might be some chocolate in it, so we decided to go for it. Low and behold, the crepes came and there was actually rose flavored jelly on the crepe. We laughed so hard I think the owners thought we were drunk or something. I could not believe we were eating rose crepes. They actually tasted pretty good. Eugenie felt so bad for making us think there was chocolate in it, but we didn't care. We're in France to try new things, and this is probably one of the weirdest things we ...

... faces and stuff. All was going well until the teacher yelled at the kids. I felt so bad for getting them in trouble I hid myself the rest of the time we were there. We left there and then went to another school of his, Jules Verne. There was this awesome rope climbing thing in the playground, so I may just come and visit him so that I can play on it. This may have been the school where I got the kids in trouble, I can't really remember. They weren't my schools so I really wasn ...

... et le souper commun qui s'en suit (pizzas au thon et au saumon, petits pains à la rillette, tartes aux fraises et aux abricots, jus et nectars, brochettes de fruits pour fondue au chocolat, fromages et tomates cerises, etc.) est le bienvenu, bien que tardif (21 heures). La fin de la soirée, c'est de la lecture. Pas été capables de rejoindre Annie et Bernard, alors on va commencer avec Pierre, demain. Croisons nos doigts...