Visit to Rennes

We did an overnight trip to Rennes, the capitol of Brittany Province, staying at a lovely AirBnb studio apartment.

We started our walking tour in the central plaza, here is a vertical panorama of city hall and the opera house, which are at opposite ends of the square.

And an obligatory church shot.

We visited the Parc du Thabor, but I'll have to let Sonya do a guest blog about that.  Here are a couple of pics.

(A local photography club was having an exposition in the park, so we browsed their photos and voted on our favourites.)

One of the main reasons for the trip - a visit to the weekly Rennes market, the second largest in all of France!  (The largest is in Paris, and is a wholesale-only market - I don't think the public is allowed - so strictly speaking this is the LARGEST market (that we can actually visit)).  We bought a bunch of fruit and vegetables for our Thanksgiving dinner (our visit was on the Fri/Sat of the Thanksgiving weekend) as well as 4 (!!!) deserts.  There were a lot of really good looking meat and seafood vendors there - with really really long lineups - but we couldn't buy anything that we couldn't leave in the car all day.

We some more walking around the city.  Here are some spectacular half-timber homes dating back to the "great fire of the 17th century".  (All these old cities seem to have some event like this that defines their history.)

It was raining so we ducked in the Rennes Art Museum.  The lineup at the Mona Lisa was slightly less than we encountered at the Louvre last year.

Another view of the half-timber homes.  Rennes is really a very beautiful city!!!

One of my "famous" (famous in my own mind anyways) vertical panoramas, of the cathedral in Rennes.

Thanksgiving Sunday was a relaxing day in St Malo (relaxing meaning we did a less than 10km walk during the day).  For dinner we roasted the veggies from the Rennes market, made a nice salad from the veggies from the Rennes market, and cooked up a "Milles Feuilles Boeuf" that we picked up at our local Farmers store on the way home from Rennes.

Oh we also had some oysters for an appie, that we picked up from a vendor selling them out of the back of their van on Sunday morning.  Only in France!!!