Weekend in Bordeaux (BDX)
Trip Start
Sep 27, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
Bordeaux,
France
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Castillon la Bataille
to meet Raf. He took us to St Emillion where we spent the sunny afternoon wandering the rue's and alleyways, up and down the paths in the village. Whilst totally touristique, it definitely had the 'quaint' factor, and if i was rich, i would have bought wine...it just seems appropriate.
Check out:
St Emilion
The cloisters of St Emilion
Then we took the train on to BDX. I was actually overwhelmed at all the people..i felt like a country hick arriving in the big smoke. BDX is way cool...we hung out at a motown bar (hmmm...i was keen to move on after 5mins...diana ross only does so much for me), then stumbled upon a Haitian music concert in place de la Victoire. Spent the night in the hostel, and today we wandered all day - saw the 'mirror' water/mist square which is a thin layer of water on a paved area that gives a mirror image of all the buildings behind it, then pumps out a mist every 20mins so u can walk thru the fog and get lost in it.
To further explain:
The 'mirror' of BDX
The 'mist' of BDX
saw a brocante at st michel, obviously wandered past a couple of other churches, walked rue st catherine, went thru musee d'Aquitaine - i actually wrote notes..it was interesting...im now totally up to date on homo habilis versus neanderthals versus cro-magnons. This afternoon me and charlotte found 'la fete du nouveau vin' which was on cours de la notre dame...its a fete which occurs halfway thru the grape fermentation...so everyone drinks the 'nouveau vin' ...its half grape juice and half wine... of course we had to ask what the cloudy lemon juice liquid everyone was drinking actually was to find this out. its sweet and delicious!
caught the train home tonight... off to london on friday...
