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Bordeaux Slideshow
Bordeaux
Travel Blogs from Bordeaux, France
The beginning of 3 days of wine
... a map. Fine by me, as I’m useless at it anyway, especially when I’m dizzy from turning the map so many times. Bordeaux was wonderful and absolutely worth a visit. We spent the night here and then picked up a hire car and drove to ...
C'est craint!
... St. Andre. It is very interesting because it was built in stages and the differences are noticeable! I think my favourite part of Bordeaux is the black on the buildings. In Nice, the buildings were always being repainted to keep their white facade and ...
Feb 10, 2012
Bordeaux 2008
... around 10:30 am and arrived in Bordeaux at 2:00 pm. The ride was uneventful, though around 20 miles outside of Bordeaux, grapes vines were abundant. Wine country was nearing!! Upon arrival at the station, I tried to figure out the ticket ...
Quelque jours de vacances
... made it home. (Thanks to Simon who walked me home to make sure I didn't get assaulted or raped in the streets of Bordeaux, haha.) I landed on my bed around 4 and passed out almost immediately. I'm sure there will be pictures of me tagged on ...
A Wine and Dine Time
... arrived in Archachon for lunch. I had a panini. Then we just sat on the boardwalk for a while. We arrived in Bordeaux around 7. I got paired with Kristine, Anita, and Amy for rooms. It turned out better than I thought it would, they're ...
La Reine de la Chasse
... , no more than 6euros each. The white I brought along was particularly good in my opinion. CHATEAU SAINT GERMAINE 2009 BORDEAUX mis en bouteille au chateau Light, refreshing, very neutral, crisp, flavors of predominently orange and some citrus With the ...
Travelling south
... few days. Since Paris we spent lots of time heading south towards Barcelona.... on our travels we stopped for a night each in Bordeaux and Carcassonne. Carcassonne being my fav of the two. We,ve discovered that the meals provided by the tour are not ...
Vin de Bordeaux est magnifique!
... as I meet three Americans. The first was Dave, from Memphis Tennessee. We hooked up for a bite to eat following a walk around Bordeaux, which can really be achieved in one evening! Still we enjoyed a decent steak and a bottle of the local tipple. I have ...
The Streets of Bordeaux
... It was nice just to get out of the rain. The Museum gave us a good run down of the history of wine in Bordeaux, unfortunately, a lot of the Museum videos were in French with no English translation. We enjoyed the wine tasting though. It was interesting ...
And the wine is delicious
I'm in Bordeaux for the day. There's a great museum here with lots of roman sculptures, pottery, and so forth, as well as cool medieval and renaissance stuff, so I enjoyed wandering around that for a couple hours this morning. I also checked ...
Beautiful Bordeaux
... tram to the city centre getting a good tour of the many monuments and the grand Gothic Cathedral of Saint Andre de Bordeaux en route. There were lots of magnificent fountains and apparently 64 monuments of which at least three are listed ...
The Complicated - but Fancy - French
... consumer, we can’t tell the difference and they appear next to each other on the supermarket shelves, both filed under ‘Bordeaux’. We have no idea what grapes they contain or whether they are heavy light, sweet or dry. All ...
Finally, escape from Paris!
Bordeaux is probably the most beautiful city I have ever been in. It still has all its old architecture and aould have been what Paris looked like pre-war. I think Im in love... Its quiet, but has a great vibrant city center, youong people are ...
La Journée Quotidienne
I got my suitcase back, thank GOD! And everything was still in it, no problems there. I finally have some clean underwear, cuz I was kinda worried that I would run out soon... So far I've had to wake up at 6h or 6h30 every morning to have a ...
Veille du départ, Checking liste...
Bon, le grand départ, c'est pour demain, mais on va quand même rejoindre Paris ce soir (ou demain, je sais pas encore, à voir avec les billets de train...). Avant ça, il va falloir être au point sur pas mal de choses... Histoire que ça me serve ...
Sancerre 2010
Sancerre is an appellation in the eastern part of the Loire Valley. I bought a "demi bouteille" (half bottle) on the weekend just to try it out, which is always a safe bet when exploring the wine world because then you do not have to commit to ...
France
... lucky enough to meet some fellow backpacker's in Thailand who said "if you ever happen to be in the south of France, come and visit us in Bordeaux!" So we made our way south. Bordeaux is a wonderful city with old stone houses, huge markets, streets ...
On the way to Bordeaux
... the bus with 2 mins to spare. This is too much for both of us and we collapse in hysterics once again. We arrive in Bordeaux at about 6:00pm. It has been a very long day and we are exhausted. We chose to take a taxi rather than another ...
Lydia in Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a very clean city with lots of open space. Plenty of restaurants but it's hard to find something as wonderful as Toulouse offered us even with the help of my e-housemate Lydia who has lived here for 2 years. Our first night we wandered the ...
Quick stopover in Bordeaux region
We spent one night in the town of Bordeaux where I had the best crepes of my life at a little hole in the wall place, and we visited Chateau Chambord. ...
Holy flying Waiters!!!
... room service………oh well sleep is a much over rated luxury!! After a slow breakfast and 7 coffees we decide a trip into Bordeaux is the order of the day. Despite being a big city it’s really easy to drive into with ample ...
Bordeaux, eerste dag
... ingecheckt, de moeders een mailtje gestuurd te hebben, wetende dat de laptop werkt en het draadloze internet ook, zijn we bordeaux in gegaan. Een toeristische attractie ingesteld en wow! Wat is Bordeaux mooi. We moesten over de mooiste brug in bordeaux, ...
Becoming Parker on both sides of the Atlantic
... we are neither French nor American. La Francaise: I live in what many argue as the wine capital of the world, that's right, Bordeaux, France. Originally, wine was not what brought me here, my studies did, but as many people from my generation know, those ...