Brussel Sprouts
Belgium, France on September 15, 2008 at 2:14 pm
So Nantes is nice. No monuments of note.
There was one that looked nice but it was mostly blocked by a carnival which I avoided. I don't like carnies. Imagine European carnies, pretty much legit gypsies.
The hotel owner is probably the best part he took 20 minutes explaining the city and how the slave trade worked. Then he gave me my key.
I guess Nantes is nice because of all the money they made off slavery. They made so much that when it was made illegal they just said fuck it and kept going.
I played Nantes in Nantes mission accomplished. Turns out they say it way different than I thought it was.
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To Nantes
France on September 15, 2008 at 3:33 am
There's about seven train stations in Paris and I walked to the one that has trains to Nantes. I knew it's general area but I zigzagged for a long while.
Once I got a ticket I took the straightest road I could see and it leads back to the Louvre so I should be able to find it again.
Didn't go in Louvre just sat in one of it's courtyards to take a break and talk to Richie. Photo is of courtyard.
I thought about going to this famous cemetery, but who visits cemeteries? Only names I was familiar with were Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde.
Chose Nantes because I can play a song on the ukulele of the same name. It's suppose to be really nice though, it does have a song about it.
So basically all I did yesterday was walk a bit then ly down a lot and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The proper response to "Do you speak English?" is always "no hablo ingles." I've said yes a few times because it's a knee jerk reaction, but they are always looking for money.
If you ask someone if they speak English the response is almost always "a little" accompanied by their hand demonstrating what a little looks like.
Also stopped to have a drink in a park. There were people with clipboards cruising around but I think this guy legitimately wanted signatures.
I've thought about the clipboard thing, it's a poor choice people avoid people with clipboards because you know they want your signature. And no one likes signing anything they ultimately don't understand unless there's a promise of large sums of money attached.
They might do better with something enticing like candy.
I know, I know, you wouldn't come to my work and tell me how to do my job…
Just cause I can
France on September 14, 2008 at 3:44 am
Imma upload random images just cause I can. This attempt at washing my clothes went alright. Probably gonna need a laundromat next go though.
Francy Pants
France on September 14, 2008 at 3:00 amI'm not sure if you are aware but green skittles in china taste of green apple rather than lime as they do in America and it is by far the most delicious flavor EVER.
In France Sprite is more limey, less sweet, and more good. I'm not even sure if those are the reasons it tastes better but upon delighting my tastebuds I immediately thought, "this refreshment is far superior to the Sprite I normally refresh myself with."
So as the pictures suggest I found some monuments of renown. It's stupid hard to take a picture of something lit up at night. With flash It looks poor without flash it looks ok if you can manage to take a none blurred photo. My hands lack the steadiness of a tripod.
So I took like eight rapid fire pictures to get one that appeared clear on the display screen.
I was heading in the direction of the Eiffel tower when I saw the square the Pope was in that day. Just some stage was left.
So now that I'm off the road that follows the river I figure I'll just walk in the direction of the tower. But when you get close you can no longer see it over the buildings. So probably wandered in the general direction of it for 10-20 minutes til I found it.
Walking is pretty time consuming it took me like 4 hours to walk to all these places and back. They have a metro but I walked into one and right back out.
All subways should be modeled after Spain's because that is crazy easy to use and understand.
Once I get out of bed I'm gonna walk to the train station to make sure there's a train to Nantes tomorrow and then if my legs are up for it check out the inside of the Louvre.
A second note on mistakes you find on posts. iPhone auto corrects things for me or tries to finish words for you so often when I look back I see a word without errors but it's not the word I meant so the sentence reads poorly.
AND there's no comments on my blog because having comments means you need to moderate them for spam. But you can email me.
Notre Dame
France on September 13, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Oo works good. So I only pics I can upload now are from my phone.
In case it's not obvious already I am guessing hard at how to spell the names of these places.
I've found glaring grammar mistakes in older posts but fixing them would be too much work. I don't exactly have a cursor to let me zero in on what I need to fix.