Follow the bubbly blogger Camille In Bordeaux in her 3 favorite places in Gironde…
Bordeaux
It comes as no surprise that Bordeaux is my favorite city! I dedicated a blog to him (www.camilleinbordeaux.fr) but also a guide written with Christophe Berliocchi and published by Editions Atlantica (“Bordeaux the ideal guide”). On the blog as in the guide we find good gourmet, cultural, fashion, wine tourism addresses, in short, enough to appreciate Bordeaux at its fair value!
I like Bordeaux for its exceptional quality of life, its terraces where it is good to sip a glass of wine (in moderation of course), its quays that are always pleasant to walk around, its well-hidden little theatres, its restaurants bordering on gastronomy, its local shops, its squares and its gardens.
Every season my favorite moment! Before Christmas I like to hunt for trinkets at the Brocante des Quinconces which sets up there twice a year. In spring, the first restaurant on the terrace is always a real pleasure. Summer, head to the public garden for picnics/naps/reading that go on forever. And in autumn, the effervescence of the new school year always has an exhilarating side, between the cultural seasons which resume and the students who arrive from all over France.
Definitely Bordeaux no longer deserves its nickname of sleeping beauty! Beautiful yes, but wide awake!
Lightship Cap-Ferret
It's cliché but it's true, the town of Lège Cap-Ferret has a crazy charm! Because it is not only the tip, the Ferret (quite superb, that said) but also a multitude of small authentic and picturesque villages like L'Herbe or Le Canon. At the water's edge, in a fisherman's hut, a few oysters and a glass of Entre-Deux-Mers white wine on the table...heavenly, isn't it? But the must must be to go paragliding, from Pilat to Cap-Ferret, to overlook the Banc d'Arguin and discover the basin with a new eye.
The Gironde moors
Bordeaux by adoption but native of the Landes, I discovered a short time ago the ideal compromise with The cough, a Gironde town less than an hour from Bordeaux and on the edge of the Landes. Naturally, pine forest, sandy soil and heather conquered me! It just goes to show that there are more than vines in Gironde! I particularly appreciated the calm of a spring day around the Hostens Lake…a place apparently very popular when the good weather arrives. I will come back in the fall to enjoy the tranquility of the place again.