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