Désolée, j'étais mangé par mon université...*

* Sorry, I was eaten by my University...

Hmm, it would appear that my blogging skills are as good as my texting skills, ie. full of good intentions but lacking somewhat in the action department - my apologies.  You will doubtless be glad to hear that I managed to fight off the beast which is the various Sécretariats of the Université de Nantes, and I'm fairly confident that somebody knows I exist ^__^  Huzzah.  Existence being established, I can now move on to more pleasant activities.  The problem with journals, whether in electronic or paper form, is that they require more attention than a Tamagotchi and so while I am sure that the past 6 weeks have been bursting with excitement, it's all blended into a blur of overpriced beer, overpriced cinema trips and pain au chocolat which were not expensive enough!  Here are some of the best bits;

 Rings on the Île de Nantes - avid readers may remember that this is where the amazingness that is the Elephant can be found.

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 Château des ducs de Bretagne - Everyone likes to walk along walls, especially when they're Erasmus students armed with cameras and a keen interest in reading all signage.  We didn't visit the museum but it's on my to do list.  Underneath 'eat own weight in crêpes' obviously.  The museums in Nantes are all free on the first Sunday of each month, however, so perhaps worth bumping above what could be a very expensive, albeit delicious, exercise.

'Lieu Unique' or the LU Biscuit factory - Nantes' equivalent to the Custard Factory, the toilets are just as disgusting but I like to think the ambience and clientele are perhaps a little more sophisticated...  

I mean, it has a TOWER with guilding and sculpture stuff on and everything!

The French love English SO much, they even graffitise in it <3  Perhaps I shall use this as a fun, visual aid in my essay on the future of the French language...

These are bicycle lights, kindly modelled by Louisa and Jocelyn - Just in case we decide to take up cycling to University, which I certainly won't be anytime soon NOT because of laziness you understand, but simply because the roads are full of Crazy French Drivers and trams O__o

Cheeky taster of what you have to look forward to next time, namely karaoke and boats.  With VIDEO *cue oohs and aahs*  Providing that the internet lasts that long, am seriously convinced that France hates all things internet-related and would much rather return to writing everything down, which they can then process in their many, MANY offices all of which close for ridiculous amounts of time for such triffling activities as Eating Lunch.  Pish.  Anyway, come again soon ^__^

French idiom du jour = avoir la gueule du bois (to have a wooden mouth -> to be hungover)