Blog 05: end of July – Nantes, and St-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie to La Rochelle
The trip to and from home for Charles’s op involved several hours to kill in Nantes. It was a beautiful but rather hot day for tramping around with luggage, but we did take a little stroll up to the Cathedral and Chateau. This is the view as we emerged from Nantes station … This is the only original part of the old city wall still remaining … Nantes Cathedral is massive – it’s hard to get far enough away to take a good photo, and the sun was in the wrong direction too! Inside though it is beautifully light … … with elegant soaring columns and a beautiful vaulted ceiling. This is the Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne and its impressive moat … Within the castle walls is the Chateau itself … … and a better view of the Cathedral … We took it in turns to walk all round the castle walls while the other one guarded the luggage! The Chateau’s vulnerable entrance was guarded by two towers, called the Doe’s Fo...