Exploring/Shopping in Grenoble? Yes please!

Friday, after another late get-up (I am starting to sound so lazy, haha) Cea and I decided to go off in search of some bargains in Grenoble, well for me it was also a chance to see more of the city. Was slightly warmer today too which was nice, so we took complete advantage and ate our lunch sat in the sun outside the Cathedral Notre Dame in the city centre with a spectacular view of the mountains as our backdrop. After having spent a good two/three hours in town we arrived back and proceeded to somewhat reminisce about our childhood, anything from tv programmes to music...I swear we are becoming old before our time! Yesterday we got an invite to go to eat at their neighbours' apartment, although as Cea and I were travelling back from Grenoble we postponed it until tonight. It was worth waiting for too! We had a sort of chicken curry with coconut and rice, it was delicious! Apparently it was a Creole dish, but from one of the girls' grandmothers' recipes. I had met one of the girls on my birthday as she briefly came round to ask why their internet wasn't working (which as it happened was due to my laptop!) but they were both very welcoming and as it turned out we had an excellent meal in very good company so I can't complain :). No idea what plans are for tomorrow are at the moment, but I'm sure we'll get up to something! Can't believe it is weekend already, this week is flying by!




Given that this post about Friday was so short in comparison to other posts, I have decided to write about Saturday here too given that it was pretty much more of the same. Cea and I went out into Grenoble centre again in theory to do some shopping although our attention was diverted in the direction of a protest that around a hundred people were staging there concerning the current situation in Guadeloupe and Martinique. At first we weren't sure as to what the protest was about, but when we were given a leaflet by a man from the Anti-Capitalist party we were enlightened and decided to discuss the matter further between ourselves over a coffee and a hot chocolate at a café across the road from where the protesters were. I myself have only protested once (as I have said before protests are a lot more common in France than in England) which was for the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005 in Edinburgh (coincidentally it was also my first and only time in Scotland, would like to go back though given that we didn't see too much of it that day), but as Céa has lived in France for almost seven years, she has done many a protest as has Nans. Even though I have now witnessed around 5 protests in my time here, I still find them both strange and spectacular.




We then went to buy some pick 'n' mix (we are both about ten at heart) and then went for a sit-down and a chat in Place Victor Hugo where we took some random photos...as you do :) Returned to their's where we had quite a chilled night, not too much to speak of on that front. Not sure what plans are for tomorrow, but given that everywhere is closed as like everywhere in France I think it'll be somewhat less eventful.