Since we finished touring the castle during the French dead-food-hour (before 7:00 pm) we decided we'd drive half way back to Rennes and stop for dinner in LeMans instead. We came in from the south east end of the city and were very not-impressed. That was, until we got to the other side of the city and noticed that the entire city was a castle and had it's own wall!
This is the entrance through the wall (which is now obviously a street). You can either go over top of it on foot, or through the wall itself using this road. If you notice, there seem to be lit niches on the sides. What could be in them?
Well it looks like they put Christmas decorations in them for the holidays. They also had some weird looking diabolic burned looking bodies, but I won't post those pictures :) We'll think happy Christmas thoughts instead.
Right on top of this entrance we found a small hole-in-the-wall place called the King's Fool (Le Fou du Roi) which is where we had dinner. It was pretty good serving traditional fancy French food. I ordered the back of something (didn't know the word) thinking that any thing that had a back had to be meat. Well, it turns out that white fish can have backs too! I also had my frst Île Flottant (floating island) which was only so/so. Craig seemed to really like what he had ordered though if I remember correctly.
It seems that to find real 'French' food you have to go looking for the small hole-in-the-wall places. When Kevin left we went to his favorite restaurant in all of Rennes, and it was also a tiny little hole-in-the-wall crêperie, so maybe it's considered normal in France. I mean, I guess most of the best places Craig talks about are little places that seem out of the way, so maybe it's normal all over.
On the way out we noticed that they even put decorations on the river of ships and things.
