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Invisible Bordeaux
http://www.invisiblebordeaux.net/
The online guide to some of the sights, stories, curios and lesser-known landmarks to be enjoyed in and around Bordeaux, France.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 321 )
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Introducing Bordeaux Métropole’s Rather Lovely Local Heritage Card Games
Invisible Bordeaux was one of a number of local structures and players who contributed to an innovative project focused on heritage in the area conducted this... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
The Gironde Estuary Hovercraft Story and the Pauillac Connection
An interesting post recently published on social media included a 1970s clip of a hovercraft criss-crossing the Gironde estuary between Lamarque and Blaye, on... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Touring the Inaugural Bassins De Lumières Exhibition
Arguably the biggest news on the Bordeaux cultural scene in this other-worldly year has been the rebirth of the city’s submarine base exhibition venue as a... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
[Musical Interlude] Introducing Slowrush and The Parallel World E.P.
As you may have noticed if you're a regular reader, the Invisible Bordeaux blog has been a fairly dormant beast lately. But there's a good reason for the... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Fontaine Saint-Jean: the Miraculous Spring in Le Teich Which Has Run Dry
Hidden away in the woods not far from the banks of the river Leyre, in the hamlet of Lamothe just to the east of Le Teich, is the small and somewhat mysterious... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Final Set of Lockdown Period Random Archive Photos (41>47)
The lockdown period in France has come to a timid end, so the series of archive photos Invisible Bordeaux was publishing daily on Instagram and Twitter is now... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Lockdown Period Random Archive Photos 31>40
If you're still following closely, you'll be aware of the fact that throughout the lockdown period, over on Instagram and Twitter, Invisible Bordeaux has been... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Lockdown Period Random Archive Photos 21>30
If you're following closely, you will already know that throughout the lockdown period, over on Instagram and Twitter, Invisible Bordeaux has been publishing... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Lockdown Period Random Archive Photos 11>20
If you're following closely, you will already know that throughout the lockdown period, over on Instagram and Twitter, Invisible Bordeaux has been publishing... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Traversée: Picking up Good Vibrations at Blanquefort Tram/train Station
In the carefree days before the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown period began, I was out and about cycling through the suburbs to the north of Bordeaux and made an... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Lockdown Period Random Archive Photos 1>10
Throughout this somewhat unreal lockdown period that has been implemented to stay safe and protect others from the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, over on... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Podcast #14 - Mathias Cisnal: All About the Mériadeck Quarter
The fourteenth episode of the French-language Invisible Bordeaux podcast is now available! This time we are venturing into the Mériadeck district of Bordeaux... Read more
Posted on 02 April 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Bordeaux’s Fourth Bronze Orientation Map Celebrates the Bassins à Flots Dockland...
A fourth bronze orientation map (or “plan-relief” in French) was recently unveiled in Bordeaux, just in front of the Cité du Vin wine museum. Hurrah! Read more
Posted on 12 March 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Revisiting Bordeaux as Seen Through the Lens of a 1970s Student
A few weeks ago, the good people of Université Bordeaux Montaigne celebrated their 50th anniversary by publishing photos submitted by people who had studied or... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Podcast #12 - Jules Gaubert-Turpin (author of Journey Through Wine & Le Tour Du...
The twelfth episode of the French-language Invisible Bordeaux podcast is now available! This time we're off to meet Jules Gaubert-Turpin, the enviously young an... Read more
Posted on 20 February 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
How Bordeaux is Acknowledging Its Slave Trade Past
One of the first items to run on the Invisible Bordeaux blog after its launch eight years ago was focused on the bust portraying the Haitian leader Toussaint... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Aerial Views of Bordeaux from the 1950s-60s
Invisible Bordeaux recently came across this nice set of aerial views of Bordeaux from the 1950s-60s, offering an unusual way of seeing Allées de Tourny, the... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Podcast #11 - Antoine Puentès on the History of Public Transport in Bordeaux
The eleventh episode of the French-language Invisible Bordeaux podcast is now available! So please form an orderly queue ahead of immediate boarding for a trip... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Notre-Dame Des Flots, Lacanau-Océan’s Minimalist Place of Worship
We are in Lacanau-Océan, on the Atlantic coast some sixty kilometres to the west of Bordeaux, and we are outside an angular building that could easily be... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL -
Is the Cité Du Vin Really Any Good?
OK, granted, this is not exactly typical Invisible Bordeaux material, given that since opening in 2016 the city’s wine museum has rapidly established itself as... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2019 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL