Due to my laziness in keeping up to date with my blog I am going to smoosh Bordeaux, France and San Sebastián, Spain, into one blog. So here goes.... After Paris we took a fast TGV train to Bordeaux. Bordeaux is a beautiful old city that is easily walkable but we once again took advantage of the public bike system to get around. A day can be easily spent looking at Bordeaux's must-see buildings and sampling of its wines. The wines weren't particularly to our ta...

After a day of recovery from Glastonbury festival and saying our goodbyes to London, we boarded the Eurostar to Paris and hurtled along at speeds close to 300km/h under the English Channel. As Paris doesn't really do hostels (well it kind of does but you have to part with many euros) we had organised an apartment on airbnb in the 12th arrondissement, Canal St Martin. We met our apartment owner at the metro station and he showed us around our very own one bedroom...