When Rheon visited last weekend we went for an explore around town to show him the sights and the conversation took an obvious turn: If Nantes castle and Caernarfon castle had a fight, who would win?
CAERNARFON
1) Older
2) Has been featured on the Google home page
NANTES
1) Better gargoyles
2) It's got a moat
VERDICT - DRAW
We also took some pictures of the famous elephant, I am amazed that with all the mentions he's had on this blog we are yet to show you what he looks like.
Meet Jules:
Here is some footage of him in action, for those of you not on Facebook:
And here is a photo of Alex and I standing exactly on top of his head! With hindsight I really wish we had done the 'Titanic' pose. Maybe next time.
Another thing we did was discovered a little bit of nature sitting right on our doorstep - I don't believe it's taken more than a month to do this but we explored the banks of the local river Erdre and it's lovely! You can walk or take boats right along it, and even a bus that's disguised as a boat, and there is even a little chateau not very far away at all. Plus we saw some sort of wildlife, which looked like a beaver, but might have been an otter, and maybe just a relative of them both.
And finally because no weekend in France is complete without one, here's a photo of a demonstration:
Ta-daaaaa.
Marie
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