(Ok for the little pun there, keep in mind the French pronunciation of Nantes which sounds like "not" :)
Last Saturday I went to Nantes with David and Dan since Dan and I figured we should probably travel at least a little bit this semester before heading home for Christmas. Holy cow I am apparently used to French keyboards now, I keep making so many mistakes typing!
Ok, so anyways, I love Nantes! Christmas was such a great time to visit. It's a bustling big city with good food and lots of shops and a beautiful castle. The city is convinced its a part of Brittany/Bretagne even though it hasn't been since the Revolution. It's only people from Nantes that believe they're Breton, even Angers folk laugh about their denial to accept that they're no longer Breton.
I loved all the pedestrian streets...
So we had lunch in a Breton style creperie where I enjoyed my first mussels in Nantes, it was great. And one thing I love that I'm not sure I'll be able to find back home is Breton cider. The flavor can be so fresh and tasty, it's bubbly, and is usually around 3-5% alcohol. It's served in pretty mugs, too.
Afterwards we went to Nantes' chateau which was beautiful to see in the setting sunlight.
From the inside of the chateau the architecture is less fortress like...
Inside the towers many areas have been used as prisons so you can see graffiti left from prisoners from hundreds and hundreds of years ago all over. Some of it is religious in nature because Protestants were locked up and other is just personal or some of it is... a mystery to me like the one below.
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One of your best!
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