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 will once again dazzle with thousands of fairy lights this festive season. The city has put on some spectacular illuminations that will festoon its most beautiful avenues for almost an entire month.This year's display wil…

Like everyone else in Bordeaux, I was keen to try out the Cité du Vin as we’ve heard so much about it over the last few years. The first thing you notice, outside the building, is the architecture, designed by XTU, it’s not for th…