Time to head out and see where we may want to eat dinner.
One street has a lot of restaurants, several of which were mentioned in multiple guide books.
Elderly wood and carvings.
I don't think I noticed at the time, but you can tell these are new.
Standing in one place, looking left (next pic) and right (pic after the next one).
Look at all the small pieces of glass in the windows. I wonder if they are old.
I'd thought the half-timbered building in the next pic was the only old one left on this block, but when I looked at the closeups, I decided it, too, was rebuilt. The half-timbered building was important enough to be rebuilt as it had been.
Never let it be said that the French don't have long memories........
Very hard to read from this angle. La Pucelle Armée -- "The Armed Maid."
"Joan of Arc was provided her armor by a brigand who lived here in April of 1429, whose house was taken for training 'The Armed Maid.'" (best guess by me, and Google, with some help from daughter)
Old. (see this carving, bottom right, above?)
Love the wind chimes here.
More chimneys.
All of these stickers are an indication that one might like to eat here, particularly given that some of them are very recent.
Our dining destination chosen (but not open yet), we wander on.
Hmmm. "Consultation on image and 'relooking'" -- I bet we have this here in the USA. I wonder what it's called, here....
Approaching the cathedral.
They *do* have beer in France!
And blue and green musical instruments.
I didn't see any shoes-on-garbage-cans in La Rochelle.
They have them in Tours........
In order to facilitate chronological traverse of these posts, here is a link to the post that comes after this one.
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2 comments:
You came for the wrong part of the trip to have beer. We were in wine and cider country; Alsace was more like beer country, right next to Germany :)
Yep. :-)
This was about the only thing I saw that talked about beer that wasn't mentioning a brand (I remember Heineken signs....).
For those who prefer beer.... :-)
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