Around Nantes - North to the Loire, monsieur... and home again - CycleBlaze

August 2, 2013

Around Nantes

The sublime and the vaguely ridiculous...
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Have family, will travel
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Waiting for the little ferry downstream across the Loire...
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...which had parking spaces to stand, park your bike - and hitch your horse
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And away we sailed
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There are far larger ships in town, though...
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...so we went aboard to see more
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I come from a vaguely naval family and I love the intricacies of ships
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A sad memory of Nantes' past. The Resistance shot the city's German commander and the Nazis retaliated by taking 50 hostages and shooting them
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Mike AylingMaybe the wrong caption for the plaque above?
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