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Day trip from Bordeaux to St Emilion

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On one of the days during our summer trip we decided to go to a very lovely town of St Emilion near Bordeaux.

It is quite easy day trip from Bordeaux and you don’t even need a car to reach the place – it’s enough to jump on a train and you will be there in about 30 minutes! When there, you can either walk to the town or take a local shuttle (make sure to check out the schedule on the local tourist office website!).

Let’s go!

How not to get your map chewed in Nara?

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I’ve always wanted to go to Nara because of two reasons. While the first one was to see all the temples I’ve heard so much about (and I’ll write a separate post about them), it’s the second reason which I’d like to show today. Deer!

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I was a bit worried before going to Nara that we’ll miss them, that the deer will be in a different part of the park, that I couldn’t approach them and couldn’t take any pictures. It turned out that the worries were absolutely groundless. And it is NOT POSSIBLE to miss the deer while in Nara Park. It’s rather opposite – deer will find you and you’ll need to feed them (or your map or your jacket will be chewed instead 🙂

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