Saturday and Sunday in Nancy

We`re still here in Nancy, Shannon has been visiting with her friends and Steve and I have been walking around exploring the city: We picked up a walking tour of Nancy from the Tourist information place so we did the 3 hr walk yesterday. It was mostly through the old town area loking at gardens, former walls, and churches. Most of the descriptions were in french so we got a little bit out of it. The girls explored a very large open air market in Nancy for mpre retail therapy.

We came home in the afternoon and watched the tour, then we went back into old town in the evening with Shannon`s friend Gabi to a nice restaurant.

Today, Sunday, Steve and I walked to the river Meurthe to find Sannon`s rowing club. It`s a huge club with a huge boathouse on a pretty big river. There`s a nice walking cycling paved path along the river so we spent several hours walking. Then came `home`and met the girls at 12 and walked to Shannon`s first host mother`s house to visit with her. Her daughter had just returned from her Rotary trip to Black Hawk,CO so we had a good time talking to her and listening to her experiences. We then walked to old town to have lunch in a large park, le Pepinere. There were lot of Nancyites there walking with their families since it was so nice out today.

Tomorrow we head to Paris, so the pace of the trip will pick up again since we will switch back into serious tourist mode on our own. It has been very nice not having to drive the car and do any route finding these past 4 days. We will return the car when we get to Paris and get around by foot or Metro. I prefer to do my route finding at a slower pace by foot or bike, much less stress than in the car. The Michelin atlas I brought along with the route guide instructions from the internet have been very very helpful.

I also will lose this handy internet access so who knows when I will be able to post again.

Cara