{"id":450,"date":"2025-06-19T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/?p=450"},"modified":"2025-06-19T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:03:12","slug":"nantes-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Nantes Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On our final day they took us to the walled city of Guerande, which is a town that still has the medieval walls. We had a few hours to wander around in town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The entry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It was market day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Guerande is also where there are a good number of salt marshes-we didn’t get to visit those, but all the stores had loads of different salts\/seasoned salts that are made (and harvested) locally<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eglise Notre-Dame-la-Blanche-built in the 14th century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Collegiale Saint-Aubin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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inside-this church was much bigger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After free time in the town, we went to a creperie for lunch. This lunch looked a lot like my dinner yesterday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crepe complet avec salade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Crepe au caramel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After lunch, we took a carriage ride through an old village that still contains the thatched roof houses, which were neat to see and interesting to learn more about. Unsurprisingly, they are a lot of upkeep!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marsh along the carriage ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then it was back to Nantes, we had some time before dinner, so I used the time to explore some other areas I remember from my time in Nantes. These first few pictures are of Jardin des Plantes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The park in general felt familiar, but not quite the same, but this statue I remembered right away! It’s of Jules Verne (author) who was born and lived in Nantes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then I walked along part of my old bus route, which would take me past this cemetery each day. I remember on La Toussaint (All Saint’s Day) this cemetery was just a mass of orange from all the chrysanthemums that people put on their loved ones graves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Musee des Beaux-Arts (Nantes Art Museum)-unfortunately I didn’t have time to visit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then we had our farewell dinner, which was a true French experience (4 hours!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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appetizer was a sweet potato puree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Main course was chicken, potato puree and vegetables<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dessert sampler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We didn’t finish dinner until 11pm, so by the time we came back through the Opera was lit up and I could get a picture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then the next day it was time to take the train back to Lille. Hopefully, I can come back to Nantes again soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our final day they took us to the walled city of Guerande, which is a town that still has the medieval walls. We had a few hours to wander around in town. After free time in the town, we went to a creperie for lunch. This lunch looked a lot like my dinner yesterday! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.martinfamily.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}