Preview of Mezzaandyort's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Bordeaux, France Entry Title: "Beautiful city but glad to leave" Entry: "29TH JUNE 2010 - This morning at 8am we leave San Sebastian. We wish we could stay longer as its a great place to relax and not have to do so much sightseeing. We only travel for about 3 hours and we arrive in Bordeaux, France. First impression, its beautiful, reminded us of a bigger version of Avignon. We check into our accommodation, Hotel Studio and once again we are sent off to another block of apartments (a lot of hotels/hostels have a main block with reception and then apartments scattered all over the place). We walk to our room which is still in the same street and open the door, Oh my god this place is so run down, its absolutely "handsome". It reminded me of some really run down dodgy place in Sydney. At least the bed is decent and the bathroom is clean. We actually had two rooms, one with a queen bed and one with two singles. We dump our stuff and go for a walk. It is so muggy and hot and felt quite uncomfortable. We walk around the town checking out some beautiful spots and then decide to go the cathedral. As we were walking through this area it was so run down and dodgy, an area full of Middle East/Arabic influence, lots of rubbish and groups of young guys that I made sure we avoided, its a very seedy ...
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