Day 10 - Fouras to Nantes
A day of highs and not so highs! Bad news - only a dribble of water from the taps this morning! Good news - Jon fixed it this evening! Better news - He has totally mastered the art of reversing the trailer! Worse news - number of Super Mosquito bites now 8!
In our hunt for the best baguette of the holiday we have been left with a number of odd end bits so they got toasted this morning for breakfast and then we set off for Nantes.
It was quite a long journey and we finally succumbed again to the use of a toll road to burn up a few miles and finally arrived at Le Camping de Petit Port at about 3.30.
Grabbed a bite to eat and then set off to see a giant elephant! We negotiated the tram system and alighted on L’ile de Nantes and started to walk to Les Galeries des Machines, via the pharmacy for more bite cream and plasters for yet another blister!! Was not a happy bunny at this point. Then we turned a corner and walked straight into a Jules Verne meets Mad Max style exhibition full of giant mechanical moving insects! Incredible engineering, people could ride on them and they moved across the floor or flew above. Best tho was the 40ft high elephant and he could walk and move his head and trunk and squirt water. Just a delight and he walked out into the park and around the square where people were sitting in the cafe. We eventually joined the people in the bar and were royally entertained by two street musicians who drove in on specially adapted motorbikes, one with a drum kit and the other with a piano. Fantastic performers and a fabulously unexpected evening of entertainment. Especially when an ambulance was called and it blocked the path of the returning elephant who then had to reverse up into his shed! You couldn’t make it up!
In our hunt for the best baguette of the holiday we have been left with a number of odd end bits so they got toasted this morning for breakfast and then we set off for Nantes.
It was quite a long journey and we finally succumbed again to the use of a toll road to burn up a few miles and finally arrived at Le Camping de Petit Port at about 3.30.
Grabbed a bite to eat and then set off to see a giant elephant! We negotiated the tram system and alighted on L’ile de Nantes and started to walk to Les Galeries des Machines, via the pharmacy for more bite cream and plasters for yet another blister!! Was not a happy bunny at this point. Then we turned a corner and walked straight into a Jules Verne meets Mad Max style exhibition full of giant mechanical moving insects! Incredible engineering, people could ride on them and they moved across the floor or flew above. Best tho was the 40ft high elephant and he could walk and move his head and trunk and squirt water. Just a delight and he walked out into the park and around the square where people were sitting in the cafe. We eventually joined the people in the bar and were royally entertained by two street musicians who drove in on specially adapted motorbikes, one with a drum kit and the other with a piano. Fantastic performers and a fabulously unexpected evening of entertainment. Especially when an ambulance was called and it blocked the path of the returning elephant who then had to reverse up into his shed! You couldn’t make it up!
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