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• 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

• La Pergola: Caudéran’s Art Deco Theatre and Multipurpose Complex

  

  We’re in Bordeaux's Caudéran district to see the 300-seater La Pergola, a theatre set in a complex that is a case study in 1930s art deco architecture and is... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2019 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Podcast #10 - Fleur Explore Bordeaux

  

  The tenth episode of the French-language Invisible Bordeaux podcast is now available and features Fleur, the independent tour guide and blogger whose local... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2019 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Exploring the Ruins of Abbaye De La Sauve-Majeure

  

  A few weeks ago I at long last got to visit one of the Bordeaux area’s most renowned UNESCO World Heritage sites: the ruins of Grande-Sauve Abbey, or Abbaye de... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2019 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Podcast in English - The 1959 Bordeaux Air Disaster

  

  Invisible Bordeaux has switched back into English for this latest podcast, which revisits the tragic story of that night in 1959 when a Transports Aériens... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2019 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Gironde's Finest Water Towers

  

  So yeah, water towers don’t get much press, do they? They stand tall and proud above our villages, towns and cities, “at a height sufficient to pressurize a... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2019 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• 2019 European Heritage Days: the Invisible Bordeaux Selection!

  

  It's that time of year again! The annual European Heritage Days will be upon us on September 21st and 22nd and, as always, in and around Bordeaux there are... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2019 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Podcast #8 - Jean-Pierre Gauffre (radio Personality, Writer, Actor and Director)

  

  The eighth episode of the monthly French-language Invisible Bordeaux features one of Gironde's most famous radio voices, that of Jean-Pierre Gauffre, who... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2019 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL