Here is another installment of the “things found in Nantes” series, with the latest pictures! Today, broken glass, Bécassine, souvenirs and a funny street name.
Browsing Category France – Summer 2015
Putting Food on the Table is Never Easy
Once you sort through the mess, you need to go to the one and only small supermarket—a Unico—is a two-kilometre walk from home. Uphill, of course.
Why Are Some French Salespeople So Unfriendly?
It takes my eyes a second or two to get used to the darkness. Inside the bakery, the blinds are closed and I’ve just walked the two-kilometre-long road along the beach under the midday sun.
Low Tide, High Tide on the Atlantic Side of France
All along the coast of Brittany, the difference between low tide and high tide is pretty amazing.
This is Saint-Michel, Cookies Heaven in France
“Fifty euro worth of cookies? Are you crazy?” I thought. A pack costs about €1.15 at the supermarket. Fancier cookies are slightly more expensive, but still, we are talking less than €3. And then we stepped inside, and I understood.
Typical Loiterers in the Streets of Nantes
In addition to locals and tourists, there are roughly four kinds of people who hang out in the streets of Nantes: homeless people, street artists, beggars from Eastern Europe and “guys with dogs”.