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That's exactly what I thought too - it's a giant peach!! The other ones look like tennis balls. At least it adds variety to an otherwise dull drive. Aside from the occassional cow, of course.
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Interesting art work along the roadside. I thought the tall colored posts looked like crayons. I do think the strange pieces would keep some of the boredom at bay. Love all the changes in the scenery.
That's exactly what I thought too - it's a giant peach!! The other ones look like tennis balls. At least it adds variety to an otherwise dull drive. Aside from the occassional cow, of course.
I thought some looked like tennis balls - and you're right about it adding variety. I wonder whether that's part of the reason they did it, to keep drivers awake and alert.
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Interesting art work along the roadside. I thought the tall colored posts looked like crayons. I do think the strange pieces would keep some of the boredom at bay. Love all the changes in the scenery.
I think they were supposed to be crayons - at least that's what we figured they were.
Saturday 31 August – part three: this is a job well done!
Soon we were entering Nancy…
We were heading for Place Stanislas, and we managed to find a car park right by it. As we’d driven it, we’d commented on how many car parks they seemed to have here, and how quiet it was as well. At home, on a Saturday, a city like this would be insanely busy.
The car park was a little tight to get into, shall we say, with a circular entrance ramp. I was very glad that a) Mark was driving and b) we had parking sensors we could turn on to check we weren’t about to hit anything. Fortunately, we found a parking spot on the first level to save us anymore going up on tight turns, and we walked up to the square.
We saw one side of the Hotel de Ville or town hall on the way…
One of the highlights are these gates, which are on all four corners of the square and also in between each corner. They were restored in 2005 and they look amazing now. Definitely a job well done.
We made our way around the square, which was first laid out in the 1750s…
This is the other side of the Hotel de Ville..
The main statue here is of Stanislas himself, who was Stanislas Leszcynshi, the former King of Poland, who became the Duke of Lorraine, the province here, in 1737.
… and headed over to one corner that had a fountain in it, where we got some photos.
As we were taking some more shots, after doing these, the rude British guy (he would be, wouldn’t he? ) started moaning about Mark still being in his shot. Whatever!
We wandered around the rest of the square, amazed by how beautiful it was, and how much there was to see all around it.
Oh my what a trip down memory lane. I love your pictures of Place Stanislas. It is one of the first places I went in France as when we moved my dad's company sent us on intensive french lessons and they were just outside there. We had lunch in a Creperie just off there most days.
Looks like it was a nice refreshing break indeed i hope you had a nice lunch. Something in your reply tells me i might have hit the nail on the head
The Buildings look like they are a block long. Are the neighbors really that close? I just think the architecture is fascinating. All of the gold art around the gates are beautiful and so are the statues.
Wonder what the Duke is pointing at. Or yelling at someone, raising his finger like moms do.
Beautiful square/plaza. These are things that the States just don't have. And if they did, they'd be run over with hot dog carts and souvenir stands! The new open area in Fantasyland kind of reminds me of a little plaza area. In front of Pinocchio Village Haus looking all German and everything, all that open space near the carousel. In my mind, it's a European square.
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Love the pictures from Nancy. Interesting fact, my great-great grandfather's first name was Stanislas (although that part of my family is from Landreville)
Oh my what a trip down memory lane. I love your pictures of Place Stanislas. It is one of the first places I went in France as when we moved my dad's company sent us on intensive french lessons and they were just outside there. We had lunch in a Creperie just off there most days.
What a lovely place to have French lessons!
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Looks like it was a nice refreshing break indeed i hope you had a nice lunch. Something in your reply tells me i might have hit the nail on the head
The Buildings look like they are a block long. Are the neighbors really that close? I just think the architecture is fascinating. All of the gold art around the gates are beautiful and so are the statues.
I suspect they probably are a block long, as that looks like Regency architecture to me (not that I'm any expert ) and that's how they tended to build them. I don't know how they were made up originally - whether it was just one big property or smaller ones, but these days, those types of properties tend to be hotels or offices/public buildings.
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I thought the tall colored posts looked like crayons. I do think the strange pieces would keep some of the boredom at bay. Love all the changes in the scenery. 
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) started moaning about Mark still being in his shot. Whatever! 
) and that's how they tended to build them. I don't know how they were made up originally - whether it was just one big property or smaller ones, but these days, those types of properties tend to be hotels or offices/public buildings.
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