Bordeaux Docks and Roadstead, early 20th Century. This picture (is it a picture that has been colored by hand, or a drawing?) is interesting, as the buildings on the docks are the same a Century later, but obviously, the docks and the activity on the Garonne river are […]
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The Monument aux Girondins (also know as the Colonne des Girondins) is one of the landmarks of the city of Bordeaux. Located on the western end of the Place des Quinconces, it stands at 54 meters high. It was built between 1894 and 1902 to commemorate the Girondists. It’s […]
Bordeaux’s Grand Théâtre about a century ago. To give you an idea what it looks like nowadays. It hasn’t changed much. Interestingly the streets around it don’t look that different either nowadays, but the fact is that they have changed a lot in one century, however, the latest renovations […]
The Monuments des Girondins. One of Bordeaux‘s most famous monuments. This is what it looked like about a Century ago (the stamp is not easily legible, but it seems that the date is April 1907). It looks pretty much the same nowadays (even though a lot has happened […]
(or why I am blogging in France tonight instead of being awake in the middle of the night because of jetlag in Japan) If you follow my other blogs a little bit (Ogijima and David in France) you must know that yesterday was supposed the day I moved to […]