Bordeaux, France 2
It was already raining early in the morning on Day 2, which didn't stop our adventure! First we visited a bakery called Boulangerie Louis Lamour. They just opened for the day, so many freshly baked breads and pastries were still on the cooling racks. We picked up pastries and hot drinks and ate them in the seating area at the corner of the bakery. I chose a pain aux raisins. It was so delightful! Savoring buttery French pastries is always one of the joys of traveling in France. I forgot to take a photo of what J had but I think it was a chausson aux pommes (a classic French apple turnover). After the lovely breakfast, we were walking around the city, slowly heading to Cité du Vin, a wine museum that opens at 10:00 am. We had over two hours to get there. We found a bronze statue of the renowned Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) just outside the Église Notre-Dame de Bordeaux, a baroque and Romanesque-style church built between 1684 and 1707 on the site of a 13th-...