Bordeax est jolli. Bordeaux is beautiful

Advantages: Beautiful, lots going on, many shops
Disadvantages: Lots of graffiti

...I vistied Bordeuax in the summer for the Bristol-Bordeaux exchange. This consisted of me going to Bordeaux for two weeks trying to improve my French. It worked! there is a lot of great features in Bordeaux. the airoport was the first thing i saw. It was very clean and ran on time. I then was on the road where you see all the vine yards and big houses. the only bad thing was the amount of grafiti. this was probably becasue i was driving through a bad suburb. The shops in Bordeaux are very good with a huge selection of shops. The main shopping street is about 1km long (well so i was told.) they had all the good English shops which were a little cheaper. Those of you who know how much Quicksilver costs will be suprised that you could buy shirts for 5euro about 3-4 pounds. Then they had my favourite shop which i think should be...

geodev4 30.10.2004 · Read review
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Ibis Bordeaux Centre Meriadeck

Advantages: Cheap and cheerful, central location secure car parking
Disadvantages: Not far from fire station and police HQ, the sirens!

...sleeper you can't hear the noise anymore. The rooms sleep 3 comfortably in a double and a bed sofa, they have a colour TV with some english channels, mainly news programmes. The bathroom is ensuite and well maintained, there is a shower and a half bath, which is particularly useless unless your a child or a vertically challenged person. The shower is detatchable and high pressured. Toileteries are supplied. The down side is there is no air conditioning, but when your staying in a room costing about £28 what would you expect. The breakfast is not included in the price , but is only about £6 and its eat all you like with hot, cold and cereal options. I have never had an evening meal there, Bordeaux has far too many other choices! There is plenty of tourist information in the reception area and if you ask at reception they will give...

gmkneen 15.03.2007 · Read review
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In my Place

Advantages: ***
Disadvantages: ***

...I don't know if I'm the best existing guide to visit Bordeaux, but for sure I love my city. French people see it as a posh city, whereas tourists instantly associated it with renowned wines. Bordeaux also got a very particular history, not exactly one to be proud of, but here it is, and the city inherited very beautiful and gorgeous monuments from the past. And the city being very dynamic and full of a student population, it's quite a place to visit ! First, you have to know Bordeaux is located in the South West of France, down by the Garonne river. The life here is quite smooth for summers are often very hot and sunny whereas winters would spare us from too bad weathers. Spring, however, remains the best season to come and visit the area, the air is still soft and the sun already shining brightly. Eventually, automn in Bordeaux...

salombo33 24.11.2005 · Read review
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Lands of wine and good living

Advantages: capital of wine, high gastronomy, historic monuments, many tours and trips, disabled friendly
Disadvantages: too many things to do, tours prices can be steep

...Here is another French town I had the chance to visit thanks to sport championships. I travelled mostly all over France and despite the sport event we had the possibility to discover the places we were competing in. Bordeaux has about 214 633 inhabitants and is one major French city. It is in the south Middle West and is part of the Aquitaine region. Wine lovers will be delighted to walk into the largest vineyard in the world. The wealth of the Bordeaux wine is huge and you are spoiled for choice. You can easily walk in a wine merchant who will be happy to give advice. You also will have the privilege to have a taste…Just few famous wine names: Chateau Medoc, St Emilion, Sauternes, Graves, Cotes de Bourg, Cotes de Blaye, Entre Deux Mers…they all have a controlled label and you can visit the luxurious cellars. It has...

alexandrapontecaille 14.06.2001 · Read review
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HOW OTHERS LIVE IN FRANCE ?

Advantages: Fun in places, though not many. Good start.
Disadvantages: Weak storyline.

...BORDEAUX HOUSEWIVES. There is only one word that suitably describes this book. I thought about it for a long time, and came to the conclusion that "silly" was the word in question. Daisy Waugh has written quite a lot of books, although this is the first I remember reading, and perhaps will be the last, if this is the quality of storytelling that is typical of her style. The book tempted me because it is about Brits in France, and I am one of this number, and it always interests me how an author has dealt with the subject matter, since many have been a disappointment, and do not really show how the life over here is, and even though they may be fiction, seem so biased against integration in many ways, which annoys me. This book, however, began in a promising manner introducing the Haunt family, with Horatio and Maude Haunt, being...

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Plonk

Advantages: Good contrast between secret and public personal lives
Disadvantages: Little sense of atmosphere

...In the village of Montmaur in heart of the buccolic French countryside lived three women: kind hearted Maude Haunt (married to Horatio); Lady Emma (married to rich, fat banker David); and Daffy Duff-Fielding, abandoned by husband Timothy for his mistress (and secretary) Lucy. The region around Bordeaux, renowned for its vineyards, is apparently home to many expats who have settled there in search of the good life - French wine, food and sunshine. As the oily mayor Bertinard notes, they generally contribute little to the local economy, being mostly broke or going broke, whilst sending their chilren to local schools (and presumably paying their taxes). Among this community is hunky builder/former chef Jean Baptiste (think Jean-Christophe Novelli, the TV chef and you get a fair picture), the Haunts' two children Tiffany...

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Bordeaux wine in Australia

Advantages: Taste, price
Disadvantages: None

...Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet from Penfold's is one of my favourite red wine. What do I like about it is its price, at £5 a bottle, it is in the medium segment of the market but what you get for £5 is of exceptional quality. I am French, and have spent 10 years of my life nearby Bordeaux. One could even say that prior to moving to England, I did not believe that any country bar France was able of producing good wine... Maybe apart from Spain and Italy, though just about. You would have told me Australia and wine in the same sentence I would have laugh at your face **remember I am French and therefore I am rude** I was lucky enough one day to spend 2 month working for a canadian wine and spirit advertising agency which had within their portfolio Penfold's an Australian wine grower. Working there had its highs and lows, though you...

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I love the town I live in

Advantages: a very nice town
Disadvantages: at the moment it is difficult to drive in as they build tramway

...Today I am speaking about the city I live in : Bordeaux, in France. Bordeaux is the sixth important french town, sitted in Gironde (South west of France). 30 miles from the seaside resorts of the atlantic ocean, around 20 miles from the most important wine places, and 300 miles from Paris. Its roman name was Burdigala. Bordeaux is a city which look like Paris (architecture). There are many things to see here : the big theater, the Quinconces Place, whom the horses had been kept during the war, not to be taken by the german, in order to make arms. There is a big cathedral, and the "Garonne" where you can see all year long "the Colbert" an ex boat from the french Army. It is now a Museum. There are a lot of english people living in Bordeaux, especially because of the fact they are working with exporting wine to UK. Then you can find...

ylliana 30.05.2002 · Read review
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London was taking place in Bordeaux

Advantages: It was wonderful
Disadvantages: That is finished !

...Around 10 years ago french discovered the famous british shop "Mark and Spencer". I will write about the one which was in Bordeaux, and which was wonderful ! The purpose is Foodhall, so I will only speak about this part of the shop even if all the others were great as well (that was the only shop in Bordeaux where I could fing english greeting cards!!!) Firstable it is true that the food sold by Mark and Spencer is quite expansive, and first of all it is not easy to decide to buy anything just for tasting. Anyway each time I bought something to eat there It was excellent, especially the indian food I am really fond of ! The casheers were smilling, if you needed an advice there were always somebody to answer you, it was really a very nice shop. It was also very practical to find nice and tasty teas, or cakes, always perfect...

ylliana 17.06.2002 · Read review
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The World's Biggest selling Wine Magazine

Advantages: Glossy .Incisive Writers. Fine Reviews
Disadvantages: Not Many

...Decanter,founded in 1975,is a glossy monthly,with a circulation well in excess of 35,000 and this makes it the world's largest selling wine magazine. In essence its editorial focus is very much on the world of wine from inexpensive,well produced wines to the likes of top of the bracket Bordeaux wines. The type of features published by the fine British magazine include producer profiles-recent features have included the Napa Valley producers and a Tour of Bordeaux-details of new wines and wine producing areas,individual wine reviews and tastings and food and wine pairing guides. Wines reviewed have included the 2000 Bordeaux Presell and Dow 1977 Vintage Port. This is a very high quality publication with a stable of very incisive writers and some magnificent photography. They do accept freelance submisions of high quality but all mss...

ashford 11.08.2002 (16.08.2002) · Read review
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