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A day in Rennes, seeing Pauline off to Bath for a conference.

We took the bus to Rennes and stayed in our favourite old school hotel there, the next morning Pauline took the train to Paris to connect with the Eurostar to the UK and I took the opportunity to walk around Rennes for a bit, very nice day for it.

Second hand book market.
One of the many churches and a square with merry go round.
I liked the look of this restaurant.
Now that’s a cargo bike!
Medieval.
The streets are pretty much all like this, at least in the old part of town.
I love the alleys.
The municipal pool is quite impressive.
Pool from the side.
This was a very pretty garden and an impressive abbey I stumbled across on my walk.
The Abbey
I liked this sign to keep your dog on a leash.
Naturally there was a market.
I liked this apartment building.
It’s a green city, lots of trees.
More medieval buildings.
Heaps of cafes and bars.
And more cute alleyways.
And a lot of churches of course.
The round turret is one of the original ramparts.
After about 15000 steps I figured I deserved some lunch!
The Gare de Rennes is quite impressive these days. It took them years to get to this point, there were massive roadworks and construction every time we visited. Nice to see it finished.
Gare de Rennes.
View of the square from the station.
From the station entrance/exit at the top.
The entrance at the top.

Pauline is off on the eurostar to the UK where she has a conference in Bath, and then she’s heading back to Turku to take part in a Phd defence. It’s up to me to guard the fort at home. I have an appointment in Guégon today otherwise I probably would have gone to Bath as well. It’s going to be fairly quiet for the next few weeks!

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