the city from the chateau

Bumming around Nantes

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February 28th 2007
Well, picking up where I left off. The flight to Nantes was fine and I got off and walked into the passport area and I hear "Rachel!". I turned around to see Lucy and Helen, two of the Leicester girls, behind me. They'd been on my flight but I went to the boarding gate at the last minute so we didn't notice eachother getting on the plane. That worked out especially well as we shared a taxi to the ... read more

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