Just been reading this in the Irish Times (thanks to Siobhan Gately for the link) so wanted to share it with you… Trunk call: the 12m-high “Great Elephant” on Île de Nantes. Photograph: Frank Perry/AFP/Getty Images Go Citybreak: Described by ‘Time’ magazine as ‘the most liveable city in all of Europe’, Nantes lives up to [...]
According to The Guardian today, the french are abandoning their historic love of bottled water for the robinet!
Check out Patrick Blanc’s beautiful vertical gardens currently on show at the International Design Centre in Melbourne.
First their were self-service bicycles, now Paris is launching a green scheme to provide electric cars that drivers can pick up and drop off anywhere in the city. Have you tried Bicloo in Nantes? It’s Nantes’ version of the Parisien scheme. So watch this space, if this car scheme takes off in Paris, it could [...]