Back in Nantes, awaiting the celebrations for New Year we headed off with Olivier to check out some of Nantes attractions....firstly the Castle, dubbed King Bruce's castle for the rest of our time there. Beautiful traditional French architecture, lovingly restored to its former glory.
Lunch was some traditonal Nantes Gallette (crepes) at an amazingly small but jam packed restaurant in the old quarter of Nantes...Beautifully light, tasty, savoury morsels of various tastes followed by what we would call crepes of the sweet variety. By the way, the dessert is Bruce's, not mine, mine was a simple Grand Marnier Crepe.
After lunch we decided to walk the couple of km to visit the elephant of Nantes. Yep, that's right..an elephant reaching 12m high and lumbering around at 5kmph. I do not exactly know how to descibe this wondrous creation based on the imagination of Jules Verne but there it was, a mechanical elephant, trunk twisting slowly from side to side, squirting steam from it's trunk and winking it's eye at me as it wandered slowly into the building, children and adults alike in smiling awe of it and laughing at it's magic! There were other amazing adaptations of Jules Vern's imagination but in my book the elephant reigns supreme!!
After the magic of the machines, a walk through the centre of town and a beautiful arcade with some lovely things just caught our eyes.
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