The 2020 Christmas Tree Collection/ Recycling Dates

The 2020 Christmas Tree Collection/ Recycling Dates

It’s true the blog hasn’t been so busy recently but you can’t ever tell me I don’t give you the best local news 😛 Every year there’s always one person left wondering what on earth do I do with my Christmas tree!!! Fear not!!! The Nantes...
Christmas at the Nefs

Christmas at the Nefs

NOËL AUX NEFS 2019 Starts Today If you don’t know what it is, you’re in for a bit of a treat. Every year behind the Elephant you’ve got Noël aux Nefs. This year is no different and starting from 2pm until 7pm most days …  you’ve got Ice...
Carols in English in Nantes

Carols in English in Nantes

This is becoming a bit of a tradition for us and hopefully, tomorrow will be no different. Not sure if there are any protests scheduled for the city centre just yet hopefully not for the sake of the shop keepers. That’s right it’s the Christmas Carols time...
Les Flâneries de Noël 2019 Trentemoult

Les Flâneries de Noël 2019 Trentemoult

Les Flâneries de Noël is on this weekend (17h – 20h Friday / 11h – 20h Saturday / 11h – 18h Sunday) in Trentemoult. What is it? Les Flâneries de Trentemoult ce sont 36 lieux, regroupant plus de cinquante exposants à découvrir au gré des ruelles...
Where to eat Christmas Day / New Years Day?

Where to eat Christmas Day / New Years Day?

Not everyone is as great a cook as I am … and modest too. (Just kidding, it just might not make sense to cook a big meal or you may not have an oven or you may just not like cooking. Most of my international students at the Ecole de Design won’t be getting...
Evil Christmas Presents

Evil Christmas Presents

It’s the 22nd of December and I think the video says it all. I don’t do Christmas presents! It pretty much sums up my Christmas present life quite...
Day 21: Noël aux Nefs 2018

Day 21: Noël aux Nefs 2018

For the last few years at the Les Machines de l’île you’ve got some kinda cool Christmas festivities. The artists from the Machines take to ice sculpting and come up with some rather amazing sculptures. This year there’ll be … AMI6 cie Exoot...
Day 5:  Les Flâneries de Noël

Day 5: Les Flâneries de Noël

This should really by my post for Friday but I’m giving you some advance warning as it starts this Friday. Les Flâneries de Noël is on this weekend. It starts on Friday and runs through to  Sunday. What is it ? It’s an artists / creators market....