Grand Mercure Central 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!<br><br>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. <br><br>Off to see the chateau this afternoon then maybe to a soccer game (Nantes vs. Nimes) this evening.<br><br>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 ...

... worked at repairing a bit more gear. It&#8217;s been about 1500km since the last time, so I guess we were due. The toe-clip repair on the pannier bag didn&#8217;t even last the first day. But we have been surviving with tying it on, and then wrapping a bungee cord tightly around the bag to hold it in place against the frame. Brian busted through his waterproof clothing bag yesterday (don&#8217;t worry, we had a spare ...

... s wonderfully letting me spend my last night in Nantes at her place. I drop my stuff off there and we head to the centre of town for our goodbye dinner. We go to a creperie, and it was alright. Not the best creperie in town but still a pretty good one. Then we just head back to hers because it is SO hot outside and we don't really feel like doing anything. We head to bed soon after.<br><br>June 30, 2009<br><br>I get up fairly early and get ready to leave. My train leaves pretty early so ...

... that, she walked and mingled with the people. They informed her of another giant that had arrived in the city the same day, and she was intrigued. This giant was of course her uncle. He was pulled out of the river the afternoon after the girl had woken up. Wanting to deliver his letters to their rightful owners, he wandered the town looking for some way to do it. During these walks he heard of the other giant. He got fed up with the letters and not being able to deliver ...

... stuff. But, during the review, I was mean April and did a lot better than yesterday with the yellow books. I had a huge stack of them. Then my worst class came in and I told them I was feeling mean today and they were so good. It was amazing. There was actually silence a couple of times, it was magical. After school I met Eugenie and we had coffee at the American café. I also had cheesecake, it was awesome. It was the last night ...

... I've been here. I got to Nantes at about 4 and then just kinda hung out. No one has any money, so nothing really happened. Fun times huh?? I watched the movie 17 Again and am not ashamed (ok maybe a bit) to say that I absolutely loved it. Sunday, April 26th Today is my one day to sleep in and guess what happens? Lauren calls nonstop and then comes over and starts knocking on my door. Needless to say I was quite grumpy. She did her ...

... were saying and what's going to happen when I get back there on Thursday. Anyways, I get home and start doing laundry. After eating some lunch, I go back up to put them in the dryer and do another load. Then I go up again to switch the loads out of the dryer and I discover that the dryer is not working. It's basically spinning the wet clothes around and that's it. So now I'm writing this surrounded by wet clothes all over my room. This has been a pretty good day so far, let me tell you.

... and when I would go out with them they spoke mostly Spanish and it was so frustrating/boring. After dinner (it was just cheap pasta, which I'm having again tonight (10/5), we went to Maury's house to meet up with some others. I felt so bad for Fernando then because everyone was speaking English and it was all at the same time and really fast. I was sitting next to him and I didn't know a lot of the people there so I would chat with him and try to explain in French what the ...

... des passes mensuelles. On veut s'informer de ces dernières, mais il faut une photo pour se faire faire une carte "étudiant" (NDA : et pour ainsi profiter du tarif étudiant). Qu'à cela ne tienne, on achète un billet à 4 Euros, bon jusqu'à 4 personnes sans limites pendant 24 heures (décidément, aucun rapport avec nos systèmes de transport en commun). On se rend, comme le jour d'avant mais cette fois-ci en bus, sur l'île de Nantes : à dix heures ...