Nantes
About Nantes
Nantes is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 327,734 in Nantes proper (2023) and a metropolitan area of over 1 million inhabitants (2022). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.
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It was from Nantes to the UK, to the people's homes in the UK. There were 60,000 pigeons taking part and 90% of them disappeared. Every year before that, they'd all arrived back. No one knew why.
from 249: No Such Thing As A Pint Of Wine, 2018-12-28 at 00:21:32 · read transcript
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Why did he choose that? Did they ask that question? I can't remember what his answer was, but I'm sure it was a good one. Which I really liked the Nantes and wish they were back. I was reading that, so I was looking into just general shrimp, like eating shrimp particularly, because they're eating it on the space station. Did you know that there are shrimp recipes available from the rapper Coolio.
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Obviously you could get coaches and you could, you could hire lots, if you could hire a private coach or get on a post-chase or whatever. The idea that a bus would have a specific route and you knew when it was going to be where and you could wait there and pick it up, then didn't come back until 1828, I think, in Europe and in Nantes.
325: No Such Thing As An Earwig Family Zoom Chat, 2020-06-12 · listen
Obviously you could get coaches, and you could hire lots of you could hire a private coach or get on a post-chaise or whatever. The idea that a bus would have a specific route and you knew when it was going to be where and you could wait there and pick it up, then didn't come back until 1828, I think, in Europe and in Nantes. That is a long gap between buses, isn't it?
No Such Thing As An Earwig Family Zoom Chat, 2020-06-12 · listen
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