On la Flore

This past weekend, there was a music festival in Lorient, Les Indisciplinées. Three of the concerts were free, so being not exactly rolling in da cash, the language assistants decided to check out one of the free concerts, the last one. This last one was at one of the submarine bases built during WWII by the Germans. It's possible to get tours/go to museums there so we decided to get some culture and history before the concert. We decided on a visit to the submarine La Flore, the only one open that day (and happily the cheapest).

I was so impressed by this museum. It was artfully done and appropriately poignant. In the museum you learned in words what it was like to go on missions on a submarine (generally lasting 30 days) and then you actually went onto the submarine, La Flore, and could get a notion of what it felt like -- highly claustrophobic.

In the museum, with really cool screens. You can see that the one on the right has just flipped up so that you can see the map projected onto the far wall.

La Flore

The experience did not make me desire to work on a submarine, but it did give me a lot of respect for those who do. Sounds about right.

Happily, there was a lovely sunset.