I left Saint-Pierre-des-Corps at 8:20am and enjoyed the beautiful train ride along the Loire River.
Arrived at the Nantes train station shortly after ten and walked to the hostel.
le Monument aux Cinquante Otages (monument to the fifty hostages) named after Hitler's proclamation from October 20, 1941 ordering the killing of fifty hostages and within two days 48 hostages were killed, several were from Nantes. 
L'Erdre River, a tributary of the Loire
Fresche-Blanc, the residence hall where I lived while studying in Nantes. 
l'Université de Nantes
Graffiti is everywhere on the U of Nantes campus, which I think is a defining part of any French public university. The ATM is tagged: argent gratuit (free money).
Château des ducs de Bretagne (Castle of the Duke of Brittany) was under renovation while I studied here, so this was my first time inside its walls.
The castle now houses an impressive thirty-two room museum on the history of Nantes.
L'île de Nantes, an island in the middle of the Loire River.
