Angouleme (about 45 minutes south) is the capital city of the Charente.
It is known as the capital of the ‘Image’ especially comic strips or ‘Bandes dessinées and has a museum dedicated to this. Every year the City hosts the International Comic Strip Festival in January. Cartoon characters appear over more than 20 walls and even street names are contained within a cartoon bubble.
Angoulême also hosts the Gastronomades festival at Christmas, Music Metisse in May and Piano en Valois in October.
The streets of the old town are quaint and in summer it will be lovely to sit in the squares and cafes and watch the world go by. There are so many places to eat and drink - it will take us years to work our way through them all.
Here are some photos to whet your appetite
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| Cathedral - over the entrance |
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| All post boxes should have character like this |
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| Bust of Herge |
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| Relais d'Alsace - Angouleme -reat food and service! |
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| Some of the street art |
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