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LATEST ARTICLES ( 325 )

• The Ten Modern-day Mysteries of Bordeaux

  

  We like to think of mysteries surrounding a city such as Bordeaux as being very much associated with the past, but thankfully there are also many modern-day... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Invisible Bordeaux Tips Featured in the Latest 'Bordeaux Moments' Magazine!

  

  Invisible Bordeaux is proud to have made a repeat appearance in the latest issue of Bordeaux Moments, Bordeaux Tourism's most excellent quarterly bilingual... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Following the 'green Line' from Place Ravezies to Le Bouscat Via Bruges

  

  Place Ravezies is one of the main entry points into Bordeaux proper and has long since been a public transport hub. Until 2012 it was also the location of... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Day 50,000 Lined the Streets of Bordeaux to Honour the City’s Archbishop,...

  

  Invisible Bordeaux recently picked up a series of postcards showing different stages of a funeral procession through the streets of the city centre in the... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• 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