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.
Link time!
first around 0:08 guy says name of town properly you can stop there.
second Beirut performing Nantes.
Don't you glance over those links it's no cake walk typing out those urls with crazy Symbols and autocorrect working against you.
So I secured passage, or as the French would say-passage, to Brussels, Belgium.
It seemed like the logical next destination geographically.
I was a little scared getting ticket because the guy was throwing a hissy fit because the lady ahead of me didn't speak English. So I wrote down tomorrows date, Nantes -> Paris -> Brussels, Belgium.
That went fine I think the other lady was just being difficult.
Chances of me making it to Belgium aren't 100%.
Train leaves here at 8:30am so I need to wake up. Then I have about an hour and a half to walk from one station in Paris to another for next train. I should be able to make it if I walk briskly. It's about 5-6km away.
I keep forgetting to mention this but Europeans are bringing back rollerblading. I had to wait for a parade of about 40 people on rollerblades, wearing glow in the dark necklaces, following a man pushing a sporty baby carriage converted into a speaker system blaring Grease Lightning.
They aren't all weird like that but I see a ton in full rollerblade armor. That's knee, elbow, and wrist pads. Saw 3 cops on blades which seemed a little silly. Who are you gonna take/chase down? I'm either going to push you over or run across gravel and grass or stairs.
I feel like I've just written a lot so gonna stop, but every time I finish a post I'm like, "gah I forgot about _____," so I added some of the things I forgot in others here.
Oh look at that I thought of one before I saved it, phew.
I was hit by a bird walking today. I was walking south to north looking at my left boot and he was flying east to west and our paths intersected at my head.
It wasn't even alarming.
Pppff…"huh, I think I just walked into a bird."
Picture was taken in Nantes by the way.