Bordeaux; Monday, 21 July, 2014

With a late breakfast under my belt and checked out with my bags at the hotel I headed into town for a full days sightseeing. First stop was on the opposite bank of the river at the Stalingrad pier where I picked up one of the regular passenger boats that run up and down the river.

The views from the boat were stunning, but because it was during the start of lunchtime there was only a limited service running backwards and forwards between the pier and the main transport hub at Quinconces rather than further up the river.

I had a bit of a wander around the city centre, and the caught the little electric bus that runs through the narrow streets of the old town down to Victoria where I had a look around, and then stopped in a restaurant on a small square for a very nice lunch.

I caught the tram back up to Quinconces and was in time to pick up the ferry services up the river. I did a round trip on the boat landing me back at Quinconces to join the open-top sightseeing tour bus.

By the time the tour got back to Quinconces it was time to head back to the hotel, pick up my luggage and make my way to the airport for my already delayed flight.

Eventually, 30 minutes before we were originally due to depart someone actually thought to tell the passengers what those of us with the App already knew, that the flight was delayed by over an hour and that it was going to be a very late arrival into Gatwick