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Time to see some more of Bordeaux. I made a last minute visit to Bordeaux a few weeks ago – my first time there and it immediately went high on my list of favourite cities. A place where I could most definitely live very happily. To get a good view of the city for me […]
a través de A walk around quirky Bordeaux — Travel with Intent
Etsaut is an small village in the South of France, very close to Spanish border.
It was something usual to find out Spanish travellers that were spending the weekend until 1970. There was a train accident and never again a train travelled.
In 2016 the french railway company started the rebuilding of the railroad track. But things aren´t as easy as they used to be and there are still 30 kilometers till the border without service.
Future will arrive without any kind of doubt… but When´ll be happen?
Pau is a French city in the southwest of the country.
It is the capital of the department of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, in the Aquitaine region.
Pau is full of fascinating stories, riding on both sides of the Pyrenees, as Navarra kingdom itself, with the first wars of religion in France, …
In the last years it has carried out an important work of rehabilitation, not only of the castle, but of the main monuments too, as well as pedestrianizing a good part of its old town, between the aforementioned royal castle until Clemenceau square, dominated by the Lafayette warehouses. It´ll be under renovation until September.
If you join it is a very important university center, which fills everything with joy and youth, makes it a highly recommended visit if you fall through that part of the south of France.
Pau does not disappoint.
In response to the weekly challenge Focus
Straddling France and Germany, this small town in the center of Alsace, has seen Swedes, Prussians, Austrians, … since its creation by the German giant Sletto, from which derives the German name of Schlettstadt that had the town until 1920.
