With Nantes less than an hour from the Atlantic Ocean, the city's residents tend to head off to the coast for the weekend as a matter of habit. In sunny weather, as in the rain, the Loire-Atlantique seaboard is magnificent. We are…

One of Nantes' culinary specialities is the famous crêpe bretonne. These pancakes can be made sweet using normal wheat or savoury using  buckwheat. The buckwheat version is called a galette. Because it would be most unwise to visi…

Welcome to a world of fantasy and fairytale characters at la Maison de la Marionnette theatre, right in the centre of Nantes. For over seventy years, this famous puppet theatre has put on exciting interactive shows from all over t…