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• The Invisible Bordeaux Monopoly Challenge: Part 1/3

  

  Every year during my family’s summer holidays, a different board game rules the early-evening apéritif slot. This year, that game was the Bordeaux edition of th... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Le Chapon Fin: the Bordeaux Dining Experience by Royal Appointment

  

  Welcome to the Le Chapon Fin, one of Bordeaux’s oldest restaurants and firmly established as an essential high-society meeting point in the heart of the affluen... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Arty Garden Party Photo Exhibition

  

  An exhibition held last weekend as part of the Saint-Michel/Nansouty/Saint-Michel quarter's Arty Garden Party featured a number of my photos. Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Beaudésert Internment Camp: the Inconvenient Truths of a Wartime Prison

  

  To the side of a roundabout in Mérignac, not far from junction 10 of the Rocade ringroad, a flame-shaped marble plaque is the sole reminder of what was once... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Beaudésert Airfield and the Development of Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport

  

  It is September 3rd 1910, and the silhouette which can be seen over to the top right of the picture above, flying over the Garonne in central Bordeaux, is that... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Journées Du Patrimoine 2013: the Invisible Bordeaux Selection!

  

  The annual European heritage days take place on September 14th and 15th. As ever the event will provide a unique opportunity to get behind the scenes of many... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Jock: the Bordeaux Family Business Whose “crème” is a Bordeaux Family Favourite

  

  On the right bank of the Garonne river, mid-way between Pont Chaban-Delmas and Pont d’Aquitaine, the 70-strong workforce of an industrial plant is hard at work... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Centre National Jean Moulin: Remembering the Second World War

  

  Centre National Jean Moulin is a compact museum devoted to the Second World War that, despite its central location on Place Jean-Moulin, just off Place... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Le Corbusier's Cité Frugès: Timelessly Modern and Back in Fashion

  

  Cité Frugès, also known as Les Quartiers Modernes Frugès, is a 1920s housing estate of particular architectural and historical significance, and its 50... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Passage Sarget and Galerie Bordelaise: Arcade Games and the Birth of Mollat

  

  Tucked away in amongst the busy thoroughfares of Bordeaux are a couple of covered arcades which offer a time capsule-like glimpse into the shopping malls of... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Croix d’Hins (2/2): the Lafayette Super High-power Radio Station

  

  As reported in the previous Invisible Bordeaux item, in the early years of the 20th century, the small community of Croix d’Hins became synonymous with its... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Croix d’Hins (1/2): Léon Delagrange and a Short Chapter in the History of...

  

  The quiet village of Croix d’Hins, a district of Marcheprime that lies mid-way between Bordeaux and Arcachon, is a succession of residential streets broken up... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Photo Contest: the Winning Entries

  

  Thanks to everyone who took part in the photo contest organised jointly with the Bonjour Bordeaux daily photo website and the Tapa’l’oeil tapas bar. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fort Médoc: Nothing to Report After Three Centuries Spent Monitoring the...

  

  The Médoc village of Cussac-Fort-Médoc boasts one of the most grandiose sights in the area: the 17th-century Fort Médoc, one of three fortified structures that... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Potatoes of Eysines

  

  When arriving in the suburban town of Eysines from Le Taillan-Médoc, we are greeted by a strange sight in the middle of a roundabout: a giant smiling potato tha... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ghost Signs in and Around Bordeaux, Chapter 4

  

  The time has come for another tour of some of the faded hand-painted signs - or, if you will, ghost signs - to be found in and around Bordeaux, and which are... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Wallace Fountains of Bordeaux

  

  Think of a typical Parisian scene and there’s every chance it will feature the unmistakeable silhouette of a Wallace drinking fountain… but a handful can also b... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Cathedral Bells of Pey-Berland Tower

  

  Tour Pey-Berland, the bell tower of Saint-André cathedral, is justifiably one of the most popular tourist attractions in Bordeaux. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Underground, Overground: Tracking the River Devèze from Mérignac to Bordeaux

  

  Bordeaux is naturally associated with the Garonne, but historically the city developed along the banks of two smaller rivers which ran into the Garonne: the... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Chapelle Saint-Esprit: the Alfresco Place of Worship

  

  We find ourselves in Pyla-sur-Mer, and tucked away in one of the quiet residential districts, just a few hundred metres inland from the waters of the Bassin... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL