We rose reasonably early this morning. We had our brekky at our hotel we were all
packed and ready for the next leg of our journey. We headed down to Montparnasse Station five
minutes walk. We had a wait of about 1 ¾
hrs before our train to Bordeaux . We met up with a lovely lady who had been on
holiday at her home up close to the border with Belgium and was returning to
somewhere between Bordeaux and Toulouse where she works.
Our train platform was announced and we headed off to where
we needed to be. There were many others
with us. We found our carriage no and
boarded found our seats beautiful TGV train.
We have a Eurail pass and also all of our journeys are booked, your
bookings being way more expensive than your pass. If you did not have a booking you would not
get on the train. Six years ago when we
were here we did have bookings which we did in Paris but it is a vastly different story
now. No booking no journey very simple
really. After a lovely two hour journey
it is about 575 ks from Paris to Bordeaux we alighted from
the train what a glorious station. We did
reach up to 319ks an hour on this journey.
Our hotel is only 2 mins from the station and we were booked in by
2.00pm. The city centre itself is about 2ks
from the station. After a beautiful walk
thru gorgeous buildings and streets we first came to St
Croix stunning just sitting there in a square no one about I am
always blown away by these places. Then
we came to the Basilica St Michel also magnificent, we had a juice to offset
the 37 degree temperature and continued on our journey. We came to a magnificent bell tower and a
church, called St Eloi, which was just divine, there was so much to take
in. I have always thought Lucca in Italy
was delightful but Bordeaux
was just something else. The women were
beautiful they dressed beautifully they certainly gave the women of Paris a run for their
money.
We just walked thru many beautiful squares I was totally enthralled
with the entire place, certainly a place not to be missed and one that you
should spend more than two days seeing.
We had something to eat then we went to Cathedral St
Andre. It is being cleaned and
restored. It was quite outstanding. They said on their info sheet, that they
cleaned and restored what they could to the best of their ability, they did not
profess to make it the same as it was but restored it so it did not deteriorate
any further and gave it another chapter for its future. I thought this was just lovely. There must be an amazing budget around the
world for cleaning and restoring these places of history. I am in awe of the people who organise and do
these cleaning/restoration jobs.
Sam said he feels as though he is a saint himself at this
point. Way too much information for him. Four churches in one day!
We headed back to our hotel we probably walked about 20ks
this afternoon, exhausted but such as beautiful place. Sabine and Sam
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