Friday Plans a Preview!

If my knees will let me I’m going to La Rochelle this coming Friday!  I found a tourist map and already have destinations mapped out.  I’m hoping that after Thursday the majority of Createam will be behind me and so will my last French exam so I will have a little time to play.  It’ll also give me time to research a little about La Rochelle before I get there so I’ll have some history cued up before I go.  This will help me know what pictures I should try to get beforehand.  I’ll also research buses in La Rochelle.  I don’t plan to do the amount of walking that I usually do on my day trips.  This time I will have to go at a slower pace and rest more often.  I’m actually looking forward to that!

Places on maps are really closer than they seem. 

Whom ever did the blue line walked this map in 20 minutes.

My list of places to visit:

• The Aquarium
• The coast of the three towers
• My buddies at the Office of Tourism (The offices are always staffed with nice people and I love collecting maps for my Daddy!)
• The tower of St-Nicolas
• The church of St-Sauveur
• The Protestant Temple
• The Cloitre des dames blanches (I’m not sure what this is yet but if Cloitres are what I think they are than it’s really pretty looking hallway, a very picture worthy stop.)
• The Town hall
• The house of Henri III
• The Cathedral of La Rochelle
• The Palace of Justice
• The mall (Maybe)
• Grosse Horloge (I’ll pass by and if it’s interesting I’ll blog it!)
• The tower of La Lanterne
• The tower of La Chaine

The earliest and cheapest train leaves at about 6am and arrives at 7am.  The cheapest train back leaves at 9pm.  So that gives me about 14 hours to explore.  I think if I take it slow, ride the bus and not be so determined to see everything I should be ok. I have decided that I’ll be coming back to Europe one day.  When I do I’ll need some destinations to visit!

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French Flowers for Easter

  

Today I took a bus to the park to take pictures of the crazy cool flowers here in France.  So enjoy!

 

  

 

 

 

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~HAPPY EASTER!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Window Lick'n

Today I went window licking (same as window shopping) in downtown Poitiers.  This morning I realized that I was out of coffee filters for coffee, milk for cereal and bread for toast.  It was time to go get the weeks groceries. 

I took the bus up to the Notre Dame because I had promised Mom and Maggy that I wouldn’t walk everywhere until the next week.  I hurt going to the bus stop, so I couldn’t imagine walking all the way up that hill!  Besides, bus rides are my new favorite thing when I’m not able to get on a train.  The walk from the Notre to Monoprix is a short one.  On the way I popped into the chocolate shop Nims.  Its Easter week and they had an assortment of chocolate figures!  In France, and maybe all of Europe, Easter chocolates are not limited to bunnies with giant ears. 

 
 
 

 

After I got done window licking all that chocolate I stopped by the mini statues place.  I would love to get this little cat tea set or one of the cat statues!  Aren’t they the cutest?

Then there were a few shops that had the spring collections out.  I can’t wait for my knees to heal enough so I can start wearing dresses again.

 

I also stopped by to visit my favorite store.  They have these really kick’n orange pants for 20% off.  I really want them but I have to get the ok from back home.   Sometimes my choices in colorful cloths don’t mesh well with the other colorful things I believe should go with it.  Maybe a picture will convince them!