Ok two major cities we have visited recently, Bordeaux & La Rochelle. Bordeaux was first, on Sunday. We first dropped Dad off at the airport for a business trip, and then went into the city. It took us a good hour to get into the city and then we went along the estuary front, and saw a large cruise ship along the the docks. We drove down until we saw parking, which was right next to a massive skatepark that was buzzing with BMX’s, scooters, skateboards, and roller-skates. There was one guy inperticular that was on a BMX that was really good, he would go up the hill, and get 5 feet of air, swirl his bike around, and landed going. Another scooterist went up the hill at speed and did a flip!! One other thing I noticed is that they had strong knee pads, one even crashed and slid down the hill and was no worse for wear. After watching the skaters for a while we moved on to the market and strolled through it several times. It was nice, but nothing special. I had to go to the toilet then so we headed to a toilet a few minutes away it was weird, it sang to me while I was in there and I stuck my hands in a slot and it squirted water, soap, water, and HOT air in that order. Next we headed away from the water, down a shopping street, but none of us enjoy shopping much, so we headed away and to a quiet triangle an got bio (Organic) ice-cream. I got cassis, (blackcurrant), Nate got Framboise,(Raspberry) Ben got gingembre,( ginger) and Mom got Citron et basilic.(Lemon and basil). They were all really good and rich. Then we headed back to the car after getting cold water at a small grocery store.
LA ROCHELLE
In La Rochelle we went to a aquarium first, for 3 1/2 hours.
First was a room that looked like a really old submarine, that shook, and then doors opened. A tunnel of jelly fish was first. (Why does it seem that aquariums always have a jellyfish tunnel) They were moon jellys.
Then the cuttlefish. Have I mentioned that cuttlefish are my favorite animal? I got a really good photo too.
It looks so good with two of its tentacles up and ready to strike! There were a bunch of other exhibits in that area that were also cool.
The next ‘room’ had an octopus and sturgeons and several other things. I loved the octopuses!
We continued our visit with going by a large tank of many fish.
Then shark tank Jr.
Then more fish, moving toward the Caribbean section.
Then the SHARK tank. It was BIG. 1 250 000 litres!!
Then bioluminescence.
And jellyfish.
Mangroves.
That covers it all I think.
