If you happen to be flying with easyJet during the month of January 2018, do make sure you flick through the complimentary in-flight magazine, easyJet Traveller, and check out the page listing "five cracking views in Bordeaux" as submitted by a "City Insider" who may seem familiar to loyal readers of the blog.
As the title suggests, the "listicle" (part list, part article!) compiles five spots or suggestions to be able to take in the best views of the city. Some are predictable essentials (Pey-Berland Tower and the Cité du Vin), but others are possibly more unorthodox suggestions (catching a Batcub river boat or cycling across the Pont d'Aquitaine). And, possibly for the first and last time ever, the Peugue and Devèze streams (which have been diverted underground in the city centre) get name-checked in an in-flight publication!
Oh, and one more thing: this January issue of easyJet Traveller features not just one Invisible City blogger but two! The magazine also lists "signs of old village life in Paris" as spotted by my Invisible Paris friend and counterpart Adam Roberts. His oddball suggestions include the Cité des Fleurs, Saint-Germain-de-Charonne church and Butte-aux-Cailles.We hope you enjoy our City Insider tips!
> The full easyJet Traveller magazine can be viewed online; you'll find the Paris and Bordeaux listicles in the "Orange pages" section from page 129 onwards: http://traveller.easyjet.com/emagazine/2915/january-2018/> Invisible Paris's Adam Roberts has recently penned a fine Cityscopes guide to France's capital city. Full information over on the website of publishers Reaktion Books here, or on Amazon here!
