Winter is coming!

Winter is coming!

You may have been hoping for a Game of Thrones post but sadly that’s not the case. In case you’ve not been outside recently … it’s cold! and it’s going to get colder next week starting Sunday night. The cold snap is happening as freezing...
Activities for kids during the February school holidays

Activities for kids during the February school holidays

If you’ve got kids in school you’ll no doubt know it’s the School Holidays If you don’t … then you may notice that public transport is about to switch from Jour Bleu to Jour Vert on the time tables. Maybe you’re bundling up the kids...
Nantes Carnival Open Days 2018

Nantes Carnival Open Days 2018

Yes it’s the Carnival Open day this weekend, or should that be open days. You can find the workshop at Ateliers Maurice Parois, 188 Route de St Luce à Nantes.  That sounds complicated to get to I hear you say? Well if you’re taking the tram take the line...
Things that go bump in the Jardin des Plantes

Things that go bump in the Jardin des Plantes

In case you’re in the mood for something a little different and FREE Les Nuits Féériques (Nights of the Fairies) is on tonight and tomorrow nightin the Jardin des Plantes (22nd and 23rd September 2017). It kicks off at 9pm and probably runs till around 11pm. The...
Nantes Today is Born

Nantes Today is Born

It seems in some way fitting that this is happening this week what with Nantes Digital Week taking place. I’m going live with a soft launch of Nantes Today. I’m not going to publicise the launch for the moment as I really do need to build up some content,...
General strike 21-09-2017

General strike 21-09-2017

The Syndicat CGT has called for a general strike tomorrow in response to the governments planned changes to the “code du travail” What does this mean for everyday life? It means there are going to be protests / marches taking place in the city center. In...
New Football Stadium for Nantes

New Football Stadium for Nantes

Good news everybody. It looks like Nantes is getting a new football stadium. Wait WHAT? What’s wrong with the old stadium? Well it would appear that Nantes doesn’t want to invest any money into the current football stadium and it’s not quite up to...
UK Immigration Test

UK Immigration Test

If you don’t know them Foil Arms & Hog are an Irish Sketch group who have been touring over the last eight or so years. For me they represent Irish humour at it’s best.
School Holidays 2017-2018

School Holidays 2017-2018

It’s that time of the year again. C’est la rentrée! School is back and the school holidays for 2017 – 2018 have been released into the wild. If, like me, you’re freelancing you really need to have these so you can plan your year in advance. You...
Le Nouveau Monde

Le Nouveau Monde

This article is out of date as the restaurant is under new management. Please see: Un Nouveau Monde It’s actually been a while since I’ve posted any decent content on here. I’ve been busy posting up home cooking recipes on another one of my blogs....
Martin’s Fish and Chips

Martin’s Fish and Chips

It’s Friday and once again that means fish day!!! I previously wrote about Poisson Paré which is a very French fish and chip restaurant, today I’m going to talk about Martin’s Fish and Chips 🙂 A few weeks back the activity center was on strike (What...
A supermoon in Nantes

A supermoon in Nantes

They say the last time it was this close was in 1948. That’s pretty insane, I did however get out to take a few shots tonight of the SuperMoon. It did however clear up enough for me to get a few decent shots as well (though I quite like the shot with the cloud...
Pornic

Pornic

Val originally wanted to head to the beach today, I’d checked the weather yesterday morning and noticed it was going to be pretty crappy today so we decided to make the best of yesterday’s sun. Direction Pornic! The decision was made and we decided to opt...
Zoo de la Boissière du Doré Nantes

Zoo de la Boissière du Doré Nantes

For the second year for us it’s Groupon to the rescue. Last year saw us heading to Planete Sauvage which I’ve got to say was pretty amazing ( I may make another post on that shortly ) This year we headed to the Zoo de la Boissière du Doré which is about 30...
L’addition s’il vous plait Nantes!

L’addition s’il vous plait Nantes!

This week sees L’addition s’il vous plait coming to Nantes. If you don’t know the show, 4 restaurants of very different styles battle it out to see who’ll be the winner with themselves as the judges. If you like cooking and eating out then...
2 Potes au Feu Nantes

2 Potes au Feu Nantes

For the week that’s in it I’ll be recommending a trip to the 2 Potes au Feu (They’ll be on L’addition S’Il Vous Plait this week 7th March 2016) . In advance I should warn that it’s also the closest decent restaurant to where I live....