Bordeaux - 10 Shocks of Visiting Bordeaux, France
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- Bordeaux is synonymous with French wine & culture. The city and the surrounding region are filled with an outstanding collection of vineyards and sights. The city itself boasts a large collection of museums, culture sights, and restaurants to make you drool for days. From the Cite du Vin (Wine museum) to the cathedral to the longest pedestrian shopping streat in Europe, Bordeaux has a shockingly large number of wonderful things to see and do. Bordeaux tourism information. What to see and do in Bordeaux. Why you should visit Bordeaux. The wonders of visiting France.
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Bordeaux is a place where you won’t get “bored though” 🤣😂😋
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Simply Jocelyn deeraz in Farsi means tall or long!
Bordeaux is the best place of France, France is the middle of Europe, Europe is the middle of the Earth and it is well know that the Earth is in the center of the universe.
That’s well funny.
@@SydneyJesson way funnier than cleaning plates 😀
I studied in Bordeaux for a few years, and I have to say, he nailed it....apart from one major point. There is a LOT of tourists, and I mean a lot if you come during the summer season. So keep that in mind if you don't want to be drowned in a crowd!
True we were there in the fall
@@woltersworld I am really glad you liked it. I actually lived rue Saint James right by the clock! It brought back memories.
@@si_quest I was living in the city centre, and I never felt unsafe. Same goes for friends that lived in other areas. Maybe my experience would have been different had I lived in other parts of the city. However, I've never heard that Bordeaux was an unsafe place. If you go there as a tourist, you will probably mainly stay in the centre anyway.
Yeah, I noticed that it's been to go to France during to colder seasons rather than the warmer season from what I gathered. When I was there in the fall, tourism in Paris was still bad but not as bad as summer from what I heard.
If you mention "a lot of tourists", try the Côte-d'Azur in the summer? No comparison! After Paris, Bordeaux is my favourite city and Arcachon bay, the paradise of my youth.
I was there in October on a long cruise ship stop and really enjoyed Bordeaux. Thanks for the video - I'd love to go back for a couple of days!
TGV two weeks advance purchase Paris to Bordeaux is $50 1st Class, $20 standard with arrival 10AM. Bordeaux to Paris is $50 arriving 9PM. Yes indeed you should stay longer but a mid-week day trip from Paris is doable and cheap. If you want to enjoy some of the world's best wines in region, a day-trip is definitely an option. 🇫🇷🍷👍
I've France one time, but I stayed only in Paris. I plan on returning in 2023 as the country is hosting the Rugby World Cup (cross my fingers nothing crazy happens by then)!!!! After watching this video, I'll be sure to check out Bordeaux. I'll be touring a lot of France this time around rather than the last time. Thank you for posting this video!!!!! I drooled over the food while having nostalgic moment of my time in Paris!!!!
My family and I are going for a 6 day trip to Bordeaux in a month and I have shared this video and the "don'ts" video to the family group. The videos have made me even more excited for the trip. Thank you 😊
Thank you! It looks beautiful!
Thank you for this video. Your enthusiasm is as beautiful as this city.
Merci!
We were pleasantly surprised by Bordeaux. Easy to get around by tram or walking. Great food scene. Nice location by the river. We took a train to Arcachon and then a bus to the dune - very easy day trip, you don't need to drive. And re the water mirror at the Place de la Bourse - I think the light is better in the morning when the sun is shining on the buildings.
I cannot wait!!
Hehe at 2:48 I instantly recognized that table : L'Entrecôte. I didn't try that one, but the one in Nantes. Yummy meal.
Wow thank you for opening my eyes to this beautiful city I had no idea how beautiful this city was, great video
I was in Bordeaux,FR Yesterday Nov.26/2022 im from Canada and all I can say is WOW! This place is amazing!!! 🇨🇦🇫🇷
We loved it too!
Thank you for all of your informative videos about France! I prepped by watching and now that I’ve returned, I wanted to give a BIG shout out to Bordeaux! It was my favorite city-even more so than Paris! And everyone was friendly and helpful. I will add however that there were a lot of tourists (like me) in town. The secret is out! 😂
My entire family loves your videos. Definitely been binge watching during quarantine 🤣❤️
Hello i come from Médoc, North Bordeaux. GOOD JOB this Video !! merci
Merci!
I heard my last name is common there is it?
awesome video
Bordeaux is kind of an hidden gem I agree :) I'm glad you enjoyed your stay in France
It really is
Wolter your videos are so informative and really catch the essence of good travel content. Thanks for the tips and keep up the good work 👍
Thank you
I will forever be looking for the duck burger I had at a small restaurant there. It was the best thing I have ever eaten.
Always love your videos about France, greetings from Strasbourg, France
Youtr vids from Finland are the best! waiting for another one in 2021!
Loveeee red wines. Would be a perfect place for me!🤗 I visit Paris. Will visit Boudreaux next time. Brushing up on my French.. Smuahh💋
It's fun to hear about my city haha Hope you enjoyed your days here !
It Hope someday I get to visit
I was looking for Info for Bordeaux but what kept me here was your energy. I love it!
Thank you for introducing Bordeaux. I had been to Paris many times but never go to Bordeaux. Such a nice place.
Great vlog! Thank you for sharing it with us!
I’m moving here soon!!
Haussmann was the governor of the Bordeaux province, the town with its typical open architecture, large avenues and building styling was his inspiration for the Parisian style he created when Napoleon III called him to remodel Paris... the famous Haussman style.. without Bordeaux there would be no Paris as you know it today.
Bordeaux is indeed a lovely city.....one of my favourite destinations
I have been there for the Wine tasting. I don't remember ANYTHING.
I suspect it was good.
Hahahaha
😆😆🍷🍷🍷🍷
Thanks man for keeping the videos coming
Cheers
Hi Wolter! This is an excellent video on Bordeaux! I am wondering if you (or any of your other followers) know how the weather in Bordeaux (and around its wineries) is in January.
Cold and wintery.
Great video Mark, love this city one of my favourites in Europe!
I've been to the region of Champagne before. It seems like France is a graduated experience🥤☕🍺🥂🍷🍷
So in case you wonder why “ place de la Bourse” looks so much like Versailles … same era!
Something else you can’t miss is Fontaine de Girondins on place des Quinconces . And 2 wine museums ( citée du vin) 🍷!
Bordeaux has the look and feel of a warmer, sunnier Paris. All that 18th Century stone and river-setting, you could be forgiven for thinking the first few Parisian arrondissements had been dragged 200 miles south. Bordeaux clearly is lovely; open, but with a manageable feeling of ‘see all my important bits in a day’. All it really lacked was a core of tightly packed narrow streets opening out onto a few squares and perhaps a nice Plaza Mayor centrepiece. Everything seemed like I was wandering around the French version of Edinburgh’s New Town when I wanted a bit of tumbledown Old Town magic too!
You mean it has more English influence than French in terms of landscape and architecture?
@@EVL-xj5vc English?!?! Last time I checked, Edinburgh was the capital of Scotland! 🥴
@@titteryenot4524 oops sorry! 🫠
I just cant get over of how good the food looked!
The sad part is the REALLY good food the videos were too dark so I couldn't use them 😢
Thanks Mark! I was on the fence about taking a slight detour to Bordeaux. My family and I plan on driving from the Normandy region down into Catelonia, Spain. I’m feeling now that we have to go. :)
Good to see you guys again, and nice new end screen at the end. Cool touch
Thanks. Trying to spice things up :)
Wolters World I hear you. Well it looks great!
I have got to try to get to that part of France 🇫🇷 ❤️
Wow! Looks like such an amazing place to visit!!!
It really was. I was sad to leave
Hi. How was the weather there We are from the Caribbean 😉 (in the video I saw people wearing jackets etc. We are planning visit Bordeaux at the end of September
Thanks
I was there a couple of years ago. The amount of tourists is climbing, but it was so wonderful! The food, the wine, the ambiance were all outstanding! It felt much safer than Paris. The many side trips available from Bordeaux were varied and all lovely! The bus and tram systems are efficient. It is a great city to walk in with all the pedestrian areas! Wolter, you failed to mention the duck!! So good!! Do visit both a big winery and a small (Mom and Pop) one. They are both unique experiences!! Did I mention the food, wine and ambience? Go!!
I Loved this video, because I just watched another travel blogger, "French Girl in Seattle" just do several videos on Bordeaux. She just moved back home to Paris after 23 years in Seattle. She is now a Rick Steeves tour guide and EXTREMELY knowledgeable. Thanks Mark.🎈🎈
COVID-19 please leave so I can go to Bordeaux.
I'm with you. Would love to go back
Spent a week in Bordeaux back in 2018 ... excellent!
You are a fantastic person. Videos of him are excellent.
Even if you speak quickly, we can follow and understand you very well.
I'm Brazilian, trying to learn your language. I believe I am at a pre-intermediate level.
Your videos really help my understanding.
Thank you very much.
Bravo Mark. Thanks.
hiii budy it's a very good information for visiting the France and you done a good work.it help the most travellers who want to travel France. it your fantastic effort that help most .thanks for providing useful information.
Thank you
I was one of the Wales fans who visited Bordeaux for Euro 2016. We loved our time there 🏴
I'm from bordeaux and the euro 2016 was such a wonderful time even if i'm not a big football fan the streets were very much alive and everybody was smiling :)
Excellent video.
Fun video mark.. I have a France trip planned.. Alsace, the North, Nantes, Bordeaux. All of it. Thx I wanted to see this
Nantes is nice ! if you are there for some days visit Trentemoult, and if you have a car Pornic!
Ahah naoned
@@moreaupascal56 thank you ppppp. I will note those destinations
Alsace is beautiful. The only think is the weather. Summer in too expensive, I so have to go to thecooler months.
Enjoyed that. Thanks.
Thank you
It's worth it to take a daytrip to Arcachon if you want to go to the beach! You can hire a bycicle there and cycle all the way along the beaches to Dune du Pilat, it's Europe's highest dune (110 m) with awesome views!
And in the city you can relax in the Jardin Public, it's a beautiful park
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I liked it there in 1985
I was put up in Merignac, AppartCity for a couple of years.. the best place to spend your valuable time.. people are amazing...
Someplace I want to visit ❤
Any tour guides to recommend while we are staying there ? Also, should we fly in there or Paris and take a train?
Thanks for sharing your information, definitely would be rude not to have a sample 🍷
When you speak french , j'adore 🌟👏
Bordeaux is my favourite french city, I went there twice and hesitate to go there for the third time 😂😂
If you go back in France, come to visit Brittany (Bretagne), if you haven't done yet. It's at 1h25 from Paris by train (TGV). Visit Rennes, Saint-Malo make an escape in Mont St Michel too. If you want to stay longer you can go in Morbihan or Côte D'armor (Brittany's department), and maybe take a boat in St Malo, to go to Jersey or Guernesey
It seems an interesting option, maybe when Covid is over, Cheers from Chile👍😎
Thanks!
You make me want to visit. I have to book a trip now.
The first item really made me chuckle. "Whaaat?! Is there a lot of wine in Bordeaux?!" Even with the caveat mentioned, it still sounds hilarious :)
In August 2020, middle of covid, no wonder there were few tourists. I go there tomorrow, will verify.
How was your trip? My partner and I are from France and are planning to visit there for the first time soon!
@@Iyana Lovely city, just be prepared to feeling like in 18th century :) And lots of tourists. Highly recommend half-day tours of vineyards from the Tourism Office, I took 2 trips 50 EUR each, don`t regret it.
If it wasn't for this coronavirus I would actually made my tour starting from Bordeaux or Toulouse and ending in Bilbao via Bayonne and Donostia/San Sebastian just right now 😅. So yes, thanks Mark for making me miss traveling even more and gain like 5-10kg for watching the food and wines of Bordeaux and maybe even the Basque Country 😅. Speaking about cusine, I kinda expect travel and food videos from the Basque Country, Asturias, Galicia, Turkey (Istanbul, Aegean region, Antalya, Ordu, Trabzon, Rize, Arhavi and Hopa) and Georgia the country with Tiflisi and Batumi in the near future when Covid-19 is over :-).
What a cool trip off the Atlantic coast going through Aquitaine, Gascogne, Basque country
Yeah you could extend from Normandy to Galicia
Wow
I live in Bordeaux lol this was funny to watch
I thought the longest pedestrian shopping street in Europe was in Copenhagen for some reason. So cool, I miss traveling so much!!
I stayed for 3 weeks and did not want to leave... Nice city! I could live there....
I'm from Bordeaux and I must disagree about the public transport being convenient. Yes it gets you anywhere around the city, but it's always crowded like a cattle wagon. Also, don't use a car, there are trafic jams everywhere in the city and on the Rocade (highway) around it and you'll take hours to make a few kilometers. Best way to move in Bordeaux is by bike !
There is a lot of tourists everywhere, and not a few, especially on the docks where you are it's always crowded with tourists in the summer. If you went there in summer of 2020 there was nobody, be it tourists or locals because of Covid restrictions.
Also, there are some neighborhoods where you better not act like a tourist (for example don't take pictures and videos, especially if you are filming people, it's illegal to take pictures of and film people without their authorization in France and we also very much dislike that for the majority). Be careful whenever you go in the neighborhood around St Jean trainstation and in St Michel.
I am reading your information. Very helpful as I may be relocating there for work. How may I ask how is the covid situation and people from other countries viewed? Thank you take care.
Il n'est pas illégal de prendre des photos sans autorisation en France. C'est la publication qui l'est.
I'm moving to Bordeaux in September 2021.
Nice video..
Thank you
how long were you here
Great video. Was going to France this year. But unfortunately Australia is not allowed to travel yet.
As someone living in Bordeaux, it's pronounced "a-ki-taine" not "a -kwi- taine"
yeah thats just how we pronounce it in english. also more like a-ki-ten
WHat about Occitane?
@@SUpersaiyajinjerkbag aw-ksee-tah-knee (it's occitanie :)
Have you ever been La Rochelle? Just up the coast? Beautiful city with great weather and less known to Americans.
Yes la Rochelle is lovely
I'm on my own tonight and eating an "Amy's" burrito....seems particularly pitiful, watching the mouth-watering food featured here! They don't say "French-trained chef" for no reason". I want to go! Thank you.
We took train from Paris, stayed there a night at that hotel you see in first few minutes. Rented a car and drove to Sarlat for a week. Wonderful place both! Have you done a vid in Sarlat?
No video on Sarlet sadly
@@woltersworld we made one. U want it?
@@edhaskell1554 Post it. Would love to see Sarlat and visit . Thanks.
@@deyonkeithdavis9341 it is way too long. covers bike/barge trip through France as well. Just go, you will love it!
How do you get to the city from the airport?
Number 1 bus. You’re welcome.😊
@@anncarroll3611 thank I was there last summer
Bordeaux 🍇 has The Jacques Chaban Delmas bridge, the highest drawbridge in Europe.
Du Panama🇵🇦, nous vous envoyons un accueil chaleureux.😎😀😍
How many days are enough for Bordeaux, I was planning two days back in March but of course everything changed. So hoping when borders are open to go to Paris for four days and then Bordeaux, so how many days are enough for it?
I'm allergic to oysters. It's the only thing I'm allergic to, weird right? Everything else looks amazing 😍
my 5th Great Grandfather
was born there
Gabriel Suzanne Dubreetz
he came to 🇺🇸 in the Comte de Grasse Navy in Rev War and settled in Fayetteville NC
the Dubreetz family lived in
Labastide-d'Armagnac formerly
as far as I know of,
can anyone translate the meaning of Dubreetz?
(of the, breetz ????)
Fantastic video as always. Do one on Marseille!! My favorite city in France ❤❤ because it is more North African than it is French haha!!
*Paris dislikes this* 😉
I sincerely want a Marseille video! I was there all by myself and was thrilled to be there!
Not really I live in Marseille and the city is not North African majority it is a melting pot with Algerian, Tunisian, Moroccan, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Jews, Armenian, Comorian, Cap Verdian, Lebanese and French people and the majority of time it works very well haha you can have an Armenian church a synagogue and a mosque in the same neighborhood and it s cool people have no problem with it you can have an Italian wine store and a halal butcher in the same streets a veil woman with a woman with a mini skirt etc.. the city is very open minded
It may be that people were overly friendly to you coz they know your channel and wanted to get good ratings
People are not unfriendly there but they are historically cold for some of them are aristocrates or bourgeois... and that's generally the spirit in this "grey" stone-worked city. Toulouse the red-brick pink city is widely known to be way more jovial and laid back. Saint-Catherine is indeed a successful urban redevelopment as is the mirroir d'eau. The boat musuem is also interesting. Other nice spots in the vicinity are the Gironde estuary (Pte-de-Grave). On the way there is an almost uninterrupted stretch of millesime producing vineyards bording the Garonne. Then there's Gujan Mestras a cute fishing village with colourful cabins and oyster beds, Arcachon a massive water bassin flanked by the dunes du Pila.
No one knew my channel there, that I'm sure of :)
is there an site or app you can book wine tours?
Very well done,but i have lived here for near on 11yrs,there are a lot of tourists, but not as many as Paris! I speak french,but as soon as they hear an accent,it"s going english!
Wonderful video! WHY WHY WHY have I never visited Bordeaux? Next time, for sure!
NOTE: NO MASKS???????? When was this recorded?
Cheers,
Any tips on vacation rentals in the area ( apartments for 30 - 60 days) thanks
Hello hello, what's the name of the meal at 2:47 it's looks incredible. I am hungry now. Cheers 😁
It's a "cannelé" made of vanilla and rum.
@@barbouze4068 i was writing about the meat dish. Do you know the meal?
I wonder what is the best way to get to Bourdeaux (from N.America). Plane to Paris and then take a train?
That's probably the easiest.
Wow I wanted to visit Bourdeax for the vineyards, but now I can’t wait to visit that beautiful city! I hope by October 2021 I would be able to plan a trip to France, right now my country is banned from entering the European Union :(
Is it flight origin or passport determined ?
@@traceymarshall5886 :
Indeed very few people have that much leave accumulated and those who do wouldn't have a job to come back to if they took all such leave in one go.
France seems nice. I don't travel that much. I got sick when I traveled to Egypt. Traveling outside the US can be difficult if u aren't use to it
Well i wouldnt really be worried about that but if there is ever a problem health services are really cheap even for foreigners :)
Do you speak French? Is only speaking American a hindering quality? I'm taking a surprise trip there in September and will be by myself a lot of the time, so I am nervous.
Hello, I would like to ask this through your channel that I have a best friend who lives in Bordeaux France. Whereas she has disappeared from all social media now I only have her number but I can't connect from my country. Could you please tell me how can I get her address. Who can help me in this ?
When did you visit that place?
October
Wolters World thanks,i got excited I thought we can travel to Europe again😌
Jesus I'm so hungry... When was this video shot??
grunky0 Guessing it’s from last year? The EU has a ban on travel from America.
After reading the comments and seeing your video I am thinking that I am doing something wrong 😆. Because I am in Bordeaux right now for almost 2 weeks and I really feel like I am getting bored. I am not really into wine so vineyards are not a thing for me. I really don't understand some restaurants that are open only for dinner or a few hours per day. But maybe I am going to the wrong places 😆