Traditional Bordeaux housing is often quite different to what tourists might imagine from glossy tourist brochures.When you wander around the city, you can clearly see that in the neighbourhoods where the people of the city really…

Bordeaux is all about fine wines, but what’s wine without good cheese? The wet dream of every mouse, Baud et Millet's boutique restaurant, tucked away in a Bordeaux backstreet, serves up 250 cheeses in every imaginable way. Order…

As soon as the sun starts to shine, residents of Bordeaux are irresistibly drawn to the Bay of Arcachon. Yet the beach isn’t the only thing this little inland sea has to offer.Sixty or so kilometres from Bordeaux, the Arcachon Bay…