This gallery is from the first two days in Bordeaux.
- Victoria Gardens, Apart Hotel
- Arrived June 20
- Cours de la somme
- Le Clandestin Restaurant, lovely dinner
- See the iron in the window
- June 21, morning
- Viewed from the train station where we bought our Sunday tickets to Rennes
- Art Nouveau cafe across the street
- The old part of the staton
- Musée National des Douanes – customs officer’s hats over the years
- Measures for salt
- Customs officer’s gear for the cold
- Various devices for poking into parcels to see what’s there
- Game
- Salvador Dali drawing on a map
- Netsuke confiscated by customs
- Store window
- Cafe floor
- Italian cafe where we ate lunch
- The fish I ate for lunch
- Ken’s fish bones
- Hanging meat
- Mollat, the biggest book store in France. We found a few books to take home.
- Stop for ice cream
- Back to the hotel for our homemade dinner.
- Off we go to the Fête de la Musique.
- Hollyhocks grow in the the smallest of cracks in the pavement.
- Place de la Victoire
- Tortoise sculpture in the Place.
- Walking along rue Sainte-Catherine
- This is the kind of music we mostly heard and saw.
- Some people really got into the celebration.
This gallery is from June 22.
- Place Camille Jullian
- Utopia Cinema
- Bathroom art at the Utopia cinema
- Homeless dog
- Flying buttresses on cathedral.
- Height of French fashion
- A palanquin in the Musee des Arts Décoratifs et Design
- Martin Szekely exhibit in old prison
- Old prison door
- Images of people reading is a theme for this trip
- shadows
- He has “Frenchie” on his collar.
- The tram is coming
- Place de la Bourse
- Le miroir d’eau
- The mirroir begins to fill up with water
- A breeze ripples the surface.
- Reflections in the still water
- The mist arrives
- Closeup of the fountain in Place de la Bourse
- Tiny grape vine growing in a pot
- Linen store
- homeless dog about to be fed a donut by his owner
- Interesting flower pot
- Someone’s home sweet home?
June 23rd (everything except the Street Art exhibition which has its own page) and leaving on the morning of the 24th
- On the way to the base sous marine
- The flying trapeze school tenets where we ate lunch
- Seen on the way back from the exhibition
- The Musee d’Art Contemporaine
- Installation piece by Dane Voh
- From the permanent collection
- Street vendor
- Altered No Entry signs by Clet Abraham
- Lamb dinner with vegetables and black rice.
- Creamed avocado with lemon sorbet
- Ken’s Dessert
- Wallpaper
- Train station washroom
- Bordeaux train station