Bordeaux City

It was around mid afternoon when we decided to head to the city of Bordeaux. We luckily found parking 2km outside of the city centre and got the chance to see most of the city before even getting to the tourist office. We learnt that even in the Bordeaux region all the wine tours are finished for the season and if you wanted to visit a Chateau, you needed to book a private tour. Most Chateaus’ charge a visiting fee and expect a wine purchase. That being said, we didn’t stay too long in the city. With only 250,000 people living in the city it was surprising to see the streets jam-packed with people and cars. We figure that the tourists double the population. It was so busy. The newly made pedestrian area was nice to walk down, but it was too busy to window shop or even really see anything. Bordeaux is pretty much like any typical city you would visit, there wasn’t too much to see, so we spent about an hour before heading off towards Europe’s largest sand dune.