{"id":320,"date":"2015-09-22T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bretandemily.bretandemily.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2015-09-22T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:19:12","slug":"nantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/bretandemily\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Nantes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having never heard of Nantes, France before, I was not sure what to expect when I was to be there for three weeks for a short course and conference.\u00a0 Wow was I surprised.\u00a0 It is a great city with lots of fun things to do.\u00a0 I somehow managed to get by despite not knowing any French at all.\u00a0 The hotel I stayed at was nothing special, but was on the river and had a pretty nice view.<\/p>\n

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Lots of nice old buildings and sculptures<\/p>\n

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I even found a sculpture by an American artist who also did a sculpture at Oregon State University that was just taken down http:\/\/www.stickwork.net\/<\/p>\n

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There is also a great park with a great arboretum and some other pretty cool living sculptures.<\/p>\n

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Emily had a slightly embarrassing run in with a goat in the park…<\/p>\n

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There was also an amazing jazz festival while I was there and during my short course we got to go to the beach and see a little of the French coast.<\/p>\n

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In between the course and conference we got to go wine tasting in the Loire valley with Belinda from Oregon State University.<\/p>\n

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The highlight, however, was the Machines of the Isle of Nantes<\/strong> which I will post about in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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