The Bastille at the top of a very big hill

Finally I have managed to get my room in a state for people to see it! So here it is, there is also a washbasin and a wardrobe that aren't in the picture. The mini fridge is to the right.

Today we went to the Bastille, the big fortress on the hill above the place where I live. It was used in wars to protect this part of France from other invading countries, with massive stone walls and a complex cave system.

There were photo opportunities all the way up!

The view from the top was amazing, I took so many pictures! It turns out that Grenoble is really quite a big city.

It was a long and tiring walk up, and such a warm day, but the views were definitely worth it, and there was a restaurant and a cafe at the top which provided some much needed refreshment!

I decided to get a waffle with caramel and 'chantilly', because it sounded like an exotic flavour! Turns out that it was just whipped cream.. oh well it was delicious anyway!

The caves were all dug out by soldiers, and were very spacious, I cant imagine how much work that would've taken them!

They also went deep underground, coming out again at the bottom of the fortress. There are lights in them now, but I have no idea how they navigated through them when there was no electricity to run off!

We decided to take the 'bubbles' that I have previously spoken about back down to the bottom of the hill, it was great to be able to see my room from that perspective, and realised that you cant actually see as much as I thought! (I'm not quite sure which ones mine, somewhere on the second floor from the top)

And as I started to walk home back up the hill, we saw some architecture that was typical of France, looking really nice in the dusk sunlight (I may have done a small amount of colour editing!).