Friday, October 29th, 2021
So far I’ve had lovely, chilly and clear fall weather, but that streak ended today. I ended up staying fairly close to home. Intermittent heavy rain fall, with occasional breaks made it not so salubrious for extended touring. La Rochelle has a lot of buses, but from some reason, their transit isn’t on google and the app they have doesn’t have a working trip planning function. Anyway found an info booth and got the right bus number to go to Ile de Re, so will try that out tomorrow. Today it poured off and on, but the arcaded sidewalks are kind of handy when it’s raining. I walked around town a lot but didn’t really do anything too exciting. Went to the Bunker museum this morning, turns out there was a WWII bunker under one of the hotels that was well preserved and is not a pretty cool small museum. Also followed the suggested curated walk, along the rampart walls and eventually to a small botanical garden. Amazing playground with rope bridge and other items that would never be allowed in the USA. Dinner was a half dozen local oysters and a small steak frites. Tough piece of meat! Some travel days are more productive that others, today was pretty low key. That’s just how it goes sometimes….
Market 
Raining morning coffee 
Inside the bunker, this was the bar 
Model of the bunker 
Arcaded sidewalks are good on rainy days! 
La Rochelle market 
Fish with curry sauce 
Old port towers. 
Children’s playground with ropes and bridges…. Wouldn’t fly with the lawyers in the USA 
La Rochelle old port 
The lantern tower, one of the earliest lighthouses 
City walls
This shows the Ile de Re 
Here’s the city of La Rochelle.
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