Is my arse getting smaller?
Trip Start
Apr 05, 2008
1
18
54
Trip End
Jun 05, 2008
Nantes,
France
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
There is an hour to kill before my train leaves so I head to the internet cafe and research more this purchasing a micor-laptop with wifi so I don't have to keep looking for an internet cafe and paying almost 10Aus a time. I sure after the 7 weeks left it will all add up and I can sell it back online for pretty much what I paid for it.
The train is like sardines, I didn't reserve a seat but luckily I get one but I can't be that choosey, the trip to Nantes takes an hour and a half and it is drizzling outside the whole way
How I find my way around town without a map
. It is a good indication of the weather I will get in Nantes. I have no couchsurfer booked as I want a couple of days to myself.I put my baggage in storage at the train station then head over to the Youth Hostel, it is closed between 10 and 4pm so I decide to head into town and go to the Tourist Information Bureau, when I get there it says it is open it is 2pm but there is no one there, hmmmm I go backwards and forwards on the one tram line as I do not have a map and don't want to get lost until the Youth Hostel opens.
I complete my transaction entirely in French I am so proud of myslef ands when she asks me where in France I am from I answer, you guessed it - je suis Australiene!!!
I go to my room and uppack and do some handwashing of some items as there is a heater and you never know when you will find one again. I check out the facilities and go to the bathroom. One thing I have noticed in so many pubs, restaurants etc there is unisex toilets, so a guy could be having a pee and you would need to walk past to go to the bathroom. I kid you not; it is not as if I can't read the sign for his and hers, I have also worked out the disabled toilets usually have full length mirrors and don't smell so much of pee. The other odd thing I notice is there is often no toilet seats, as is the case at the youth hostel. Now I am not sure if it is because my arse has shrunk after all the walking I have done or the toilets are bigger; But every time I set on one I fall in so it is a fine balancing act I have to do of sitting on the toilet and not falling in and not touching the porcelin as there is no seat; which is fine by me.
I get some maps and brochures from downstairs and head out to dinner and to the internet cafe as my laptop on ebay is ending at 8.30pm.
I am outbid by an american whose arse I am sure is double the size of mine, not to worry I research on the web and I can get one delivered for slightly cheaper but less memory; in the excitement of ebay I went almost 100 dollars over my limit. But not to worry as there are plenty of them available online and hopefully I can get myself one before the weeks out. This paying for internet access is killing me. I head back to the youth hostel at get back around 10.30pm. Ohh the joy of communal sleeping.
