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Bordeaux Slideshow
Bordeaux
Travel Blogs from Bordeaux, France
Bordeaux
... Bordeaux the city is ok. I am staying in a hostel which is ok, not in the best spot, kinda near the red light district of Bordeaux, yes it has one!!! So I am definitely not going out by myself at night. Anyway, I had better go and see some stuff, ...
Across the Bordeaux line
... just have to close your eyes and go! Eventually we cleared the worst of it and were on our way for our days excursion. Bordeaux is unsurprisingly surrounded by various wine regions - the two most renowned are St Emilion and the Medoc which happen to be in ...
Taking it's toll
... lugging around. We broke out the plastic cups only to realise we had no bottle opener, nor apparently did the hotel... in BORDEAUX!!! No, I don't believe it either. A quick rummage through my backpack confirmed that I didn't have a single one of the ...
Bordeaux, ce n'est pas que du vin
... . Malgré une température incertaine, nous nous sommes dirigés pour visiter ce petit village à une quarantaine de minutes de Bordeaux. Naturellement, ce nom sonne « des cloches » pour les buveurs de vin, mais l’endroit est sympathique ...
Engaged, No Married
... out some restaurants for dinner (non suitable), then walk to Saint Michael district. Turning a corner off the pedestrian area we have left France and we are in North Africa. There is a Flea market in the main square I've never seen so much useless junk ...
Bordeaux and the surrounding area
... of the animals. All in all, it was a very educational day. On our drive, our guide discussed wines in the Bordeaux area and I discovered that all French vines are grafted onto American roots (as they are the only ones resistant to the root rot ...
Lourdes, day one (oh Lourdes!)
... . Then our train came to a stop, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, in the middle of France, in the middle of our conversation. After the signature SNCF ding-ding-DING the conductor's voice said something about stopping and the ...
chillin in bordeaux
... this key board is off the charts. i guess im glad its not in kanji though. totally arrived safely in bordeaux yesterday evening. ive just started to feel the jetlag. totally crashed this afternoon and had some wicked dreams. ...
Beautiful city but glad to leave
... to relax and not have to do so much sightseeing. We only travel for about 3 hours and we arrive in Bordeaux, France. First impression, its beautiful, reminded us of a bigger version of Avignon. We check into our accommodation, Hotel Studio ...
Bordeaux, France
... leaving. Having a little time before our agreed-upon meeting with Meredith at the authentic Irish pub, Krista and I kicked around Bordeaux for a couple of hours. Noteworthy sights were the Hotel de Ville (city hall), the cathedral, and a couple of ...
Bordeaux
... presati. Decid sa trimit un email la Tarom diseara sa intreb de conditiile de schimbare a datei. Intram in centrul Bordeaux si nimerim in mijlocul unei multimi foarte multiculturale, intre tonete, dubiosi multi, un fel de targ pe ...
Bordeaux
1 night in Bordeaux. The highlight of our trip down from Paris to Aussurucq. Bordeaux is a great city, lots to do, great transit, plenty of nice places to eat and drink. Little did we know, we'd be coming back pretty soon for Meredith's father's heart ...
Bordeaux part deux
... as one of the most incredible vintages of the past few decades. So, that's my tip of the day: start buying 2005 Bordeaux wine futures and preordering and grand cru that you can get your hands on. In anticipation, some chateaus have raised their prices ...
Bordeaux
Hey pepps Last stop before London, Bordeaux. The town it's self was not that impressive, a few nice streets and some cool wine bars and stuff but apart from that a bit dirty and dero. We stayed in a self contained apartment, which was nice because we ...
Bordeaux - Good Wine, great Toilets!
... also unloaded the extra crap from the bags. Do we REALLY need the pingpong paddles? Seriously? No? Well, that first night in Bordeaux I was feeling better, then the evil steak hit Maya. Ay Caramba, same exact symptoms. Poor girl had it bad all through ...
Day trip to Bordeaux
... the bars, shops, restaurants, opticians, hair salons (of which we took advantage, check out Lionel's new look in the pics). We frequently passed dodgy looking vagrants. Bordeaux was not what we imagined. You may have had a better experience. ...
Bordeaux
... Gatsby. After lunch at Paul, I decided to walk to centre ville. I met Carolyn there and she gave me a mini walking tour of Bordeaux. There's a place by the river that has a huge reflecting pool. But since it's winter it was empty. Great. We walked around ...
Bordeaux
... . After all that, I definitely needed a long walk, so we sauntered back to the hotel through the pedestrian streets of Bordeaux. There was apparently a music festival going on at the time, which added to a lively Wednesday evening. There were teenage ...
Down to Bordeaux
This morning I was up and out fairly early to catch my flight to Bordeaux where I would spend the Sabbath. Again I picked up a rental car and drove to the home of Mr. Mrs. Bernard Audoin. Mr. Audoin is a retired pastor; he and his wife are very faithful ...
Sabbath in Bordeaux
Sabbath we had an afternoon service with eleven people present. I gave news of my trip and of the work of the Church and then a Bible Study appropriate to this time when we approach the observance of the Passover, following Jesus' example with His ...
Back to the wine country!
Well, I have arrived in Bordeaux and am heading to a wine tasting seminar in a few hours. The weather is crappy, alternating between sunny and pouring rain. I was planning on going on a wine tour to the local wineries but unfortunately the ...
To the land of Montaigne and back
Today I drove 100 km east of Bordeaux for a pleasant lunch visit with James and Odile Muir who are both officers in the French association, and whose service we appreciate very much. They live very near the village of Saint Michel de Montaigne where the ...
Oysters, foie gras, cheese, and wine
... held parties where he and the guests dressed up in period costume. Apparently he was very shy and blushed easily. Finally I arrive in Bordeaux. I stay at the apartment of Elodie, who I met at the last Sitges tango festival (remember, don't give me your ...
Jacques and a French-Laos lad and voila! Bordeaux
... us to stay the night there and have dinner with his family, but we had just gotten a text about a picnic waiting for us in Bordeaux with our couch surfing host and his other guests so we declined. We all shared a bottle of rose and Jacques gave us a ...
Wine Lovers Unite!
... where they hard fancier equipment to mass produce it). It was really interesting and I actually learned a ton about wine. Bordeaux is actually quite small and outside of wine and their one famous park there wasn't much to see. Glad ...
Bordeaux
This place I visited in December of 1981 - on a one-month tour with a railpass during the winter break of my studies in The Netherlands. The name is famous for the wine of course - but the place, at least in cold, rainy December, was a depressing ...
Fast Ride Through France, September 22 - 24, 2007
... competitive treadmill of spiraling toil called career. Our rapid traverse on expressways through western France took us through LeMans, Tours, Poitiers, Bordeaux, and Bayonne. The strong French leisure ethic was apparent that Sunday as both ...
dans un mois...
un deux un deux test micro j'espère que tout fonctionne! Bon voilà on est à un mois de l'aventure, les préparations se font tranquillement. On a pensé qu'un blog pourrait être sympa pour vous tenir informé de ce que nous faisons et où nous ...