So I guess it's been a while. Internet has been a difficulty recently. But everything else has been good. Paris was amazing. We only had about 3 days there and wanted to see as much as we could in that time so we just kept moving and ended up rather tired. The first day I think I mentioned. We saw sacre couer, champs elysee, arc de triomphe, eiffel tower, luxembourg gardens, pantheon and notre dame. The next day we went early to the louvre. It's pretty overwhelming. We wandered there until our feet hurt and we were hungry. Then after lunch we went to the shakespeare and company bookstore which was a different kind of amazing. I always love those kind of bookstores where it's so packed with books on every surface that you have to squeeze between the shelves. And then the Centre Pompidou which is kind of an awesome building. We did look at most of the art there but we also found squishy chairs and by that point it was very hard to not stay in the squishy chairs reading. Sadly they had to close and we had to make our way back to the hostel and find some dinner. The following day we went out to Versailles. I don't even know what there is to say about Versailles. The buildings were amazing in various ways and the gardens are enormous. Luckily the weather was good so we could just wander the grounds. We got back to Paris in the Afternoon and went to the Musee d'Orsay. Which was also fantastic, though slightly overheated.
And then the next day we had to leave. But not until the afternoon so we had the morning to walk around some more and see a few of the parts of Paris we hadn't gotten to yet.
By the time we got to the train station we were exhausted. We'd decided to have 2 days in the loire valley so that we could sleep and recover for one day and still have time to see some chateaux. But instead we slept and read for both days and didn't see a great deal of Blois at all. But we left much more refreshed than we had been, ready to see Carnac.
We got incredibly lucky with Carnac because we managed to couch surf with a woman who was willing to drive us all around to see the stone alignments and the sunset over they ocean and a tomb and little seaside villages and more. If we had had to do it ourselves we would have found a way but we wouldn't have seen half as much as we did because it would have taken so much time to figure out how to get places.
The stone alignments at Carnac are amazing. I took some pictures and I'll try to remember to stick one in at the end but they don't really give you any idea of the scale. These massive stones are lined up in rows
There are also a bunch of tomb things where they've put these stones standing close together, more or less in a circle, and then placed a giant one over the top. We went to see one that is in a forest area and is still contained in rock and earth. You can go inside it.
Then we went for lunch for the local speciality of galettes. Very tasty. Had a look around the port then drove out to the peninsula with a dramatic coastline where we speculated on the sanity of the surfers.
That evening our host had friends over and she fed us lobster. It's the first time I've had lobster. I decided since I was planning on eating it I should be willing to watch them prepare it. Including the part where they cut it in half alive. Almost makes me want to switch to halal but I trust that most of the meat I eat goes through slaughterhouses where the aim is efficiency meaning a quick and clean kill. I was not a fan of watching a living creature be bisected but once it was dead I had no problem just seeing it as meat. And it was tasty. Though rather hard to eat.
So that should bring you up to date. I am now on the train to St Malo where hopefully there will be decent internet for me to post this.
that go for hundreds of metres. And that's just one part. There are several different parts. Thousands of megaliths covering I don't even know how many kilometres which people purposefully placed upright in the ground. And the rocks don't even come from near there! And unlike stonehenge you can walk right in among them and reach out and touch them. Or you can in winter anyway. Apparently in summer they are closed off so the vegetation can regrow. Another advantage to travelling off season.
And then the next day we had to leave. But not until the afternoon so we had the morning to walk around some more and see a few of the parts of Paris we hadn't gotten to yet.
By the time we got to the train station we were exhausted. We'd decided to have 2 days in the loire valley so that we could sleep and recover for one day and still have time to see some chateaux. But instead we slept and read for both days and didn't see a great deal of Blois at all. But we left much more refreshed than we had been, ready to see Carnac.
We got incredibly lucky with Carnac because we managed to couch surf with a woman who was willing to drive us all around to see the stone alignments and the sunset over they ocean and a tomb and little seaside villages and more. If we had had to do it ourselves we would have found a way but we wouldn't have seen half as much as we did because it would have taken so much time to figure out how to get places.
The stone alignments at Carnac are amazing. I took some pictures and I'll try to remember to stick one in at the end but they don't really give you any idea of the scale. These massive stones are lined up in rows
There are also a bunch of tomb things where they've put these stones standing close together, more or less in a circle, and then placed a giant one over the top. We went to see one that is in a forest area and is still contained in rock and earth. You can go inside it.
Then we went for lunch for the local speciality of galettes. Very tasty. Had a look around the port then drove out to the peninsula with a dramatic coastline where we speculated on the sanity of the surfers.
That evening our host had friends over and she fed us lobster. It's the first time I've had lobster. I decided since I was planning on eating it I should be willing to watch them prepare it. Including the part where they cut it in half alive. Almost makes me want to switch to halal but I trust that most of the meat I eat goes through slaughterhouses where the aim is efficiency meaning a quick and clean kill. I was not a fan of watching a living creature be bisected but once it was dead I had no problem just seeing it as meat. And it was tasty. Though rather hard to eat.
So that should bring you up to date. I am now on the train to St Malo where hopefully there will be decent internet for me to post this.
that go for hundreds of metres. And that's just one part. There are several different parts. Thousands of megaliths covering I don't even know how many kilometres which people purposefully placed upright in the ground. And the rocks don't even come from near there! And unlike stonehenge you can walk right in among them and reach out and touch them. Or you can in winter anyway. Apparently in summer they are closed off so the vegetation can regrow. Another advantage to travelling off season.
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