Eurostar Announces New High-Speed Bordeaux Line

Lovers of high speed train travel and fine claret wines will have something to raise their glasses to tomorrow as tickets go on sale for a new rail service to Bordeaux that will knock more than an hour off the current travelling time from London to this region of France so beloved of the British. 

The tickets, which will cost from $136 return, will be valid for travel from July 2, the date on which a new 188-mile high-speed line will open between Tours and Bordeaux, knocking some 70 minutes off the Paris-Bordeaux stretch (from 3 hours 15 mins, to 2 hours 5 mins).

Although the journey from London will involve a change of station in Paris – between the Gare du Nord and Montparnasse – the improvement in the link will mean that the total travelling time to Bordeaux will be reduced to just under six hours (5 hours 55 mins) – nice and speedy, but still leaving time enough to savour the passing French countryside. 

The British have been enjoying the choice wines of Bordeaux for centuries (a taste for which they speedily acquired during a three hundred period of English rule years up until 1453).  The addition last year of the first-rate La Cité du Vin (wine museum) in the city – described by Telegraph Travel’s Bordeaux expert Anthony Peregrine as “a hi-tech romp of huge imagination and charm” – has only added to the attraction for oenophiles.

But there are plenty of other reasons to visit the city that in 2007 was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site and which was named by Lonely Planet as the best city in the world to visit in 2017.

In his comprehensive guide to Bordeaux, Peregrine says that in addition to its score of wonderful eating and drinking venues, Bordeaux can claim to have the “most graceful streets in France” and a centre that has “a grandiose 18th-century harmony unmatched in Europe”.

There is culture too – of a conventional kind in the Grand Theatre, and of a more contemporary twist in the bars and clubs of the St Pierre district. “Welcome to the Bordeaux nouveau,” declares Peregrine. “It offers the ancient dignity but with added zest and fruitiness. For immediate drinking.”

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