A second day in Nantes

A second day in Nantes
Our German biker friends, the ones we ate breakfast with yesterday, weren't around at breakfast this morning. Incidentally, breakfast at this hotel is probably the worst value we've had so far. 13 euros, and just not a lot of variety. 
We took a bike ride today to Île de Nantes, the island south of the center, where the huge mechanical elephant is. That was fun to see, and luckily it was actually out and about, "walking" around (actually rolling).
Interesting kind of post-industrial landscape, with lots of huge sculptures. I was hoping to bike around the whole island, and indeed that's what the city website says is a great bike ride, but the southern part is all blocked off and impossible to access. We tried a bunch of times, and then finally were able to start taking the bike path in the southeast area of the island. Lots and lots of government buildings, the palace of Justice, the regional government office, etc. They mostly look pretty ramshackle and poorly maintained.
People are definitely less friendly in a city like this, it's hard to find people to have a conversation with. It didn't seem that difficult in the towns we passed through.
Later in the afternoon we decided to do another bike ride, this time on the canal to the north. I thought that since it was an actual named bike ride, it would be reasonable, but it was actually pretty bad. It was mostly just biking on pedestrian paths, some very crowded. most everybody else that's on a bike knows exactly where they're going, and is going there very fast, while I always need to stop and look at the map. Then the bike ride back into the actual city, in bike lanes on the road, was a nightmare, very dangerous. It reinforced my thought to that I only really want to do longer distance biking on good, marked trails.
Dinner at a kebab place. Peter and I were watching the Andrew Tate video, Peter is now interested in starting a business, and we were talking about potential business ideas. 

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