This French wine capital is the perfect autumn city break
They used to call it La Belle Endormie: a sleeping beauty choked with traffic and blackened with soot. But now Bordeaux has woken up. Its long parades of 18th-century architecture have been sandblasted clean and its streets equipped with trams, cycle lanes and pedestrianised zones. Navigation is quick, the atmosphere unhurried and the food uncommonly good.
Source: thetimes.co.uk