16 - 18 November 2015
Bordeaux is a lovely city with a fantastic public transport network linking neighbouring suburbs (which were probably once small towns).
We had our first Picard experience. It's a frozen food store with aisles and aisles of meals and ingredients. It's good quality, and really delicious. We had so much fun just looking at everything in the freezers... and then buying enough food to last us a day or two. We prefer fresh food, but we came to the conclusion that it's a good way to cater a large meal, or to have a healthy option in the freezer for when you don't feel like cooking.
On the way into Carrefour, a bigger supermarket (which is basically a small mall), we were stopped and had our bags checked. The security guard seemed surprised that they were already full of food. I'm not sure if this is heightened security following the attacks in Paris last week.
Anyway, some photos from our wanderings:
We had our first Picard experience. It's a frozen food store with aisles and aisles of meals and ingredients. It's good quality, and really delicious. We had so much fun just looking at everything in the freezers... and then buying enough food to last us a day or two. We prefer fresh food, but we came to the conclusion that it's a good way to cater a large meal, or to have a healthy option in the freezer for when you don't feel like cooking.
On the way into Carrefour, a bigger supermarket (which is basically a small mall), we were stopped and had our bags checked. The security guard seemed surprised that they were already full of food. I'm not sure if this is heightened security following the attacks in Paris last week.
Anyway, some photos from our wanderings:
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| We didn't actually eat here but we appreciated it anyway |
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| Monument to the victims of the Terreur, a period during the French Revolution when many people were executed |
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| Pont de Pierre |
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| One of the gates to the city |
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| A map of the central city (the gate above is on the left. but a bit bendy) |
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| The place where we had dinner - all our burritos are prepared with love :-) |
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| Turtles! |
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| Someone's memorial to the Paris victims |
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| The theatre (and on the right, a sculpture. Part of a series that were proposed to the city, but she's one of only two that were realised) |
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| The bridge at night |
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| The same gate when lit at night looks quite eery |
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| The view across the river |
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| Even the crane is lit up! |
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