Wednesday 10/27/21
Lovely day in Nantes, started by taking the tram to the botanical gardens. Nantes, being a port city, had gotten all kinds of plants from various places and has one of the best botanical gardens in France. Also imbued with many humorous pieces of art, see photos. From there off to the local Chateau, a lovely turreted moated affair of reasonable scale. Then in search of a crepe, the Ble Noir, or Sarassin otherwise known as buckwheat is usually gluten free and makes a good lunch. Then I took the tram up to the Isle de Versailles, an island in the Erdre river, which is a Japanese garden park. They had electric boat rentals, and since it was a sunny pleasant afternoon, I rented one and putted up the river at blindingly fast 5kmh about 2.9mph. All in all a pleasant afternoon. Then time for dinner and/or apero, so headed to the isle de Nantes to Chez BB which came highly recommended, but was closed. So back to Jeroboam, where we were last night, and I hadn’t been able to do justice to the charcuterie plate. Looking good so far!! Have to say, I would rate Nantes as definitely worth a visit, clear indications of work being done to improve the city, lots of transit, bike lanes etc. Also, wide variety of food available, not always the case in France. Not on the American tourist map, but enough things to do an visit to be interesting without being overwhelming. I’ll be back! For more of my take on Nantes see this page with some of my thoughts: Nantes Info
Botanical gardens 
Nantes tram at grade 
Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes 
Vespa art 
Chateau from inside 
Magic tower 
Boat trip up Erdre River 
Monument to 50 slain citizens, retaliation for resistance killing of gestapo officer. 
Typical street 
My AirBnB is the top floor 
Small charcuterie plate at Jeroboam 
Evening street scene.
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