Garden genie (female)

The city's beautiful botanic gardens are full of the most wild installations you've ever seen. Each one is accompanied with the most absurd description. They were created by Claude Ponti and have been there all year. When we saw the first one yesterday we didn't understand what was going on, but once we saw a few more we realised it was a joke - on a huge scale...!

Today is our last day in Nantes, and before we took the train back to Saint Malo we went back to the park to take some more pictures and kill time before our train arrived - the garden is near the station anyway.

Today's blip is a female garden genie, it's about 4 metres across and must have looked even more impressive in full bloom. There is also a male one, as well as totem plants, giant topiary park bench mimics, and all sorts of other nonsense...

Our train trip was pretty uneventful, though I still hate the stupid hanging bike things that SNCF insist on having installed on their trains.

On reaching Saint Malo in the early afternoon, we checked into our B&B Hotel and then went shopping. Carrying everything by bike means we got very little, as it has to fit on the bike - which is good for self-restraint!

This evening we'll go into old city to buy our last crepe...

(back blipped...)