On a day that was dry but still bitterly cold we took the train from Macau to Bordeaux.
The line is single-track in places and does a slow and ugly sweep round the city to enter the terminus past decaying and demolished buildings. All other lines including the TGV come in on the pretty side!
Bordeaux is twinned with Bristol and at this point it seems apt! Shades of Temple Meads, but the good burghers there have not set up a tram system like this! Gleaming, frequent, convenient and cheap - you can board immediately outside the station and go anywhere.!
As they say: "Virtute et Industria --l!"
The wind did however fair blast down the Garonne and we didn't linger over outdoor sights!
A real find (and warm!) was the Jean Moulin Centre - very poorly curated but with much of interest about the Resistance (and about the "Cockleshell Heroes" - British marines who canoed down the Gironde for sabotage). We even found a copy of the previous day's Guardian - which we were missing! We will go back - but not in March!
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