Our first visit was Le Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne which is really impressive. This is Nantes' most important historic building.
This is the remaining tower from the Lu biscuit factory. It is now called Le Lieu Unique and is a centre for contemporary arts and music. The top of it is supposed to resemble a tin of biscuits.
This is the Basilica of St. Donatian and St. Rogatian
We actually went back to check that Marguerite de Foix was there!
The ubiquitous Irish pub!
We lunched in a cafe in Nantes but obviously chose badly as it was a rather unappetising looking dog's dinner. To compensate we went to another cafe where Brian and I had a cafe gourmand - a coffee with a selection of little cakes including a little gateau nantais - deliciously naughty!
This is Basilique Saint Nicolas.
Back in Treize Vents, having dropped Brian at the airport, we walked around the village and had a look at the Calvary which was put in place by the authorities in Puy du Fou. This area of Ftrance is particularly Catholic!
In Trois Collines for an aperitif we had a great chat with the proprietor and learned the origin of both the village name and the pub's name. Treize Vents is a corruption of the old word tres which means three so it is 3 winds not 13. There are three hills above Treize Vents from which the 3 winds originate and from which the pub got its name.
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