Hello again!
Here I am continuing my adventures in the land of baguettes.
In June we went to Puy du Fou with my housemates, which apparently received the title of the best park in the world last year. Basically, it’s a medieval themed park where you pay an entry fee and then you can see different shows. It was very interesting my favourite was the bird show in which there were huge eagles, owls and all types of birds flying right above our heads. There was also a really impressive gladiator show set in a coliseum. The park was really huge, and there were parts that reminded of a medieval town, there were forests and really nice sceneries. Apparently they also do an evening show with fireworks but we didn’t see that because you had to book in advance and we were knackered anyway after hours of walking around.
Feels like we’ve travelled through time.
The Viking show
Gladiators
At the end of June there is an event called la fête de la musique, which means that all around France there is live music, bonfire and fireworks. I think this is a fantastic idea we should do this in more countries! I was amazed by how packed the place was and we couldn’t get too close to the stage because we arrived quite late. It was quite funny because after the fireworks had finished they lit the bonfire and initially I thought that the fire was unintentional and it was one of the trees that caught fire from the fireworks…. I was getting a bit suspicious that people didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that the fire is getting bigger and more intense by minute when my housemates revealed it to me that it was the bonfire. Oh silly me….
Fête de la musique concert
And the bonfire….
Occasionally we pop in to St Gilles, the neighbouring town, which is actually bigger and cooler than St Jean. The first time I’ve been there was when we went to have dinner after work and we found this amazing little place where we all had seafood, except Steve who had steak as a good English lad would. 😉 I had this incredible fisherman’s salad :
And the girls had moules frites (mussels with chips), which is a typical seaside meal and is divine as matter of fact.
The next significant event was Beth’s (my housemate who finished at the end of June) goodbye/birthday party. It was a lot of fun, we invited all our co-workers, managers and friends, had some pizzas, drinks and a looooovely chocolate mousse cake, of which Angele and I were particularly fan!! And when the managers had left the real party started with more drinks, music and dancing. I didn’t stay up till too late (went to bed at around 2am) because I had to go to work the next morning and I know I can’t do anything when I’m tired. I knew I made the right decision when the next day Angele told me that the other receptionist was visibly still drunk from the night before haha.
The day Beth left to Spain, Fiona and I took the train to Nantes to chaperone her and we spent the day in Nantes. Despite the fact that it was my second time in the city, I didn’t know where any of the places were that I saw the first time thanks to my dreadful sense of direction. Nevertheless, after having got hold of a map, we got by fairly easily. We found a second hand book shop where Fiona was very excited to find Harry Potter in French for the bargain price of 3€ and I also bought two books to get me going. It was the middle of summer sales as well so we also popped in to a few cloth shops and I got myself a lovely summer hat from Accessorize whilst Fiona got herself some work clothes. Before our train left back to St Jean we had some ice cream at this Italian place where they served the ice cream in the shape of a rose and it was marvellous.
Next time I will write about the things I’ve learnt in France, so watch this space!