Sometime at the beginning of my stay here in Nantes, Jess emailed me and said she was coming to visit on the 16th of October and that she would stay for the weekend. Unfortunately, I was going on a weekend trip with IES that weekend; one of those excursions included in tuition, so I was clearly obligated to go.
That meant I had one day to show Jess Nantes.
I asked around that Tuesday at conversation club, demanding of all the native Nantes students:
"If you had one day to show someone Nantes, what would you do?"
To which they all responded.
"That's not enough time."
Nevertheless, I penciled in the castle, and then decided to hope for the best.
On Thursday, the 16th, Jess arrived at the train station at 9:30pm and once we were home I shoved quiche, pain au chocolat, and the rest of the cream puffs in her direction.
The next morning saw us getting up early and heading to Tabl'o Gourmand, which has become mostly my go-to breakfast joint. This time, I was wise enough not to choose the enormous brunch and instead had a bowl of granola. After this, we crossed town to the castle, moseyed around there for a few moments before deciding not to spend the five euro for the museum. Le Select, a cafe-bar-restaurant happens to be right across the street from the castle, so we stopped for a coffee and tea.
We crossed town again to the bakery near the opera house at Place Graslin, where Jess got the tiny chocolate mousse dessert that she'd been coveting since my Facebook post of it and I got what was essentially a piece of French toast covered in sugar and chocolate chips. After this, we decided to hit up the museum of natural history, because if there's one thing you want to do on a Friday afternoon, it's spend time in a huge building of dead things. As it turned out, we were literally the only people in the museum. This clearly allowed us to commandeer the children's room, where we spent a good chunk of time coloring.
The end of our visit to the museum saw us cross town yet again to find lunch at a creperie and then a snack at Sophie Bakery.
That evening, Dany made us ham, cheese, and egg galettes.
It was a very food-oriented day in Nantes.
I left early the next morning and Jess was gone an hour later. Dany told me afterwards that she was very alarmed, because she woke up and no one was home.
My adventures with Jess will continue in less than a week for the beginning of NaNo, where our kick off will be on her turf in London.
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