Bordeaux - la ville

What a great little city! Bordeaux is charmingingly cute, just about all the buildings are of the old stone type, and the mayor seem to be doing his best to add to the friendliness by adding trams and pedestrian streets.

There's a student town feel about it; lots of little cafés and pubs and some very trendy I-want-to-eat-out-here 'quartiers'. Much to the distress of many a Bordelais, especially the boyfriend or husband variety, Bordeaux is home to what is said to be one of the longest pedestrian shopping streets in Europe; Rue Sainte Catherine.

The Garonne river, that skirts 'centre ville', is wide and less personal than the Seine, so you don't feel like 'over there' is still part of Bordeaux, in fact we never did make it to the other side.

I guess it best that I explain that Bordeaux isn't in some warped space time where gravity works at 30 degrees to the earth... in fact it is the new street photography shoot from the hip style.

There is so much more to Bordeaux than great red wines.