2015-09-08-La Rochelle, FR (Day 1)
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After leaving Richelieu, we drove an hour southeast and stopped for a delicious pot roast lunch after which we drove another hour to our destination for the day, La Rochelle, population 80,000. A medieval Atlantic port city with an excellent harbor, and rich history, La Rochelle has, at various times, been independent, ruled by England and ultimately France. In the late 1500's and into the 1600's, the city became a center for French Protestants, the Huguenots, who rebelled twice against the French Crown. This did not sit well with the Catholic King Louis XIII who dispatched his Chief Minister Cardinal Richelieu to La Rochelle who led a fourteen month siege by Royal Forces that fatally starved 15,000 of the city's 20,000 inhabitants, until the city's mayor finally capitulated.

After checking into our hotel, Guillaume led us on a one hour walking tour of the Old Port area which featured three magnificent towers built in the 1300's and 1400's and served as port defenses. Other points of interest included two lighthouses and an impressive medieval stone gate tower, the entryway to the old city. After this brief tour, we continued on our own in the cobble stone paved Old Port area. Around twilight Georgia unfortunately lost her footing on a cobblestone step and badly sprained her ankle, an accident that would slow her down for the rest of the trip. After recovering a bit with a few sundown beers, we made our way to Cafe Andre, a seafood restaurant where we enjoyed an excellent dinner of mussels roquefort, a local specialty.


An unusual roadside sculpture en route to La Rochelle
Lunch on the way to La Rochelle
Our Luncheon venue
Heading back to the bus after lunch
Gare de La Rochelle, the city's main train station
Gare de La Rochelle is the main railway station serving La Rochelle. The station building, which includes a 45-metre-tall clock tower, was built in 1922 by Pierre Esquié for the CF de l'Etat replacing an older building.
Tower detail-Gare de La Rochelle
Ferris Wheel near La Rochelle's Old Port
A local fellow playing Pétanque, a form of Boules, a popular local game
Boules is a collective name for a wide range of games in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls (called boules in France, and bocce in Italy) as close as possible to a small target ball.
Local lads playing Pétanque. Note the players feet must not leave the circle
Pétanque is a form of boules where the goal is to throw hollow metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (literally "piglet") or jack, while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground. The game is normally played on hard dirt or gravel. It can be played in public areas and in parks.
A young lad demonstrates sound underhand Pétanque throwing tecnique
The game of Pétanque. The object is get closest to the red cochonnet ("piglet"), or jack.
Georgia and Dave observing a game of Pétanque near La Rochelle's old harbor
Guillaume explains the rules of Pétanque
Quay Maubec, La Rochelle
Ferris Wheel near the old port
Marina in the Old Port
The "Green Lighthouse" on Quay Maubec
Old, harbor facing buildings on Quay Maubec
The 15th Century Lanterne Tower in the Old Port area
The "Green Lighthouse" on Quay Maubec
Canal Maubec fronting La Rochelle's Old Town
Eglise Saint Sauveur
The St. Saviour Church (formerly St. Madeleine ) was built in the late seventeenth century. It is located near the Maubec docks near the old port, and is dedicated to Saint Sauveur, that is, Jesus Christ .
Guillaume leads our group past Canal Maubec adjacent to the Old Town of La Rochelle
Canal Maubec and the Old Town
Clock Tower gate to the Old Town
Georgia peers into the afternoon sun
The Saint Nicolas Tower (1376) and Chaine Tower (1390) frame the inner harbor's entrance
Quay Duperre
Canal Maubec
Old Port
Marina in the Old Port. Sailing and motor boating are very big in La Rochelle.
Admiral Duperré of La Rochelle, a French naval hero of the Napoleonic Wars
Baron Guy- Victor Duperré was born in La Rochelle on 20 February 1775 and died in Paris on 2 November 1846. He was a French naval officer during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Saint Nicholas Tower
Clock tower Gate to the Old Town
Vieux Port, the Old Port
Guillaume explains that the frigate L'Hermione sailed from La Rochelle to ferry Lafayette to America
The Hermione was a 12-pounder Concorde class frigate of the French Navy. She became famous when she ferried General Lafayette to the United States in 1780 for support to the Americans in the American Revolutionary War.
The tower of the Gare de La Rochelle peeks over the town's rooftops
View across the Old Port
Carroll and Dave agree that it is almost time for our late afternoon beer
The Red Lighthouse, La Rochelle
St Nicholas Tower
The French tricolor snaps over St Nicholas Tower
The Lanterne Tower looms above the Old Town
Busy street in the Old Town
The Orderly architecture of Old Town
The flags of Heirs-Brouage and Saintonge flutter over a bastion
In 1825 Brouage was joined to the village of Hiers, 2.5 km away, forming the commune of Hiers-Brouage. Heirs most celebrated son is the French navigator Samuel de Champlain, who lived there when young, before being the co-founder of French settlement in Acadia (1604–1607) and Quebec (1608–1635). Saintonge is a former province of France located on the west central Atlantic coast. Today, four fifths of the historical Saintonge province occupies the modern département of Charente-Maritime.
The St Nicholas and Chaine Towers.
In olden times during times of conflict a chain would be stretched between the two to prevent access to the inner harbor
Time for our late afternoon beer. Dave went to fetch Jean from the hotel for dinner.
A casaulty of touring
Both Cary and Georgia tripped on a cobblestone step near the harbor but Carey stayed upright while Georgia went down, badly spraining her ankle in the process.
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