Le Passage Notre-Dame — Local services in Bordeaux

Fun place to poke around as you never know what you'll find. Staff are friendly enough and happy to answer any questions, although the young gentleman working the till didn't speak much English (although why should he? He's in France). Just to set expectations and mention that using Google translate can definitely be helpful in such situations since my two years of high school French from 1984 was not sufficient to communicate well enough 😅

Came away with this lovely St Amand iron earthenware cake stand (cracked but expertly repaired) for a mere 8€.

It always helps when you enjoy the music too. We caught most of the Chopin Piano Concerto no. 1 whilst there!

Headed back to Bordeaux near the end of next month and will definitely pay them...

Avoid this ‘shop’ at all costs!! I have never had a worse experience with a shop owner in my entire life. After browsing through the utter junk for a few minutes, the owner approached my friend and I and stared at us continuously. He then began yelling in French, that we were wasting his time and not purchasing anything. We then politely asked if we should leave and he began to escort us out. To make matters worse, he watched us walk the whole way down the street and gave out to fellow shop owners about us which was very embarrassing. As young tourists, this experience was most uncomfortable and upsetting. There were some other French people browsing in exactly the same manner as us, which he took no issue with. Avoid,...

After we entered the shop and started looking at some of the junk the owner calls antique, he started to follow every move we made and looked very mad. We kindly said “bonjour “ but he didnt reply and started looking even more mad. We then decided to walk towards the exit of the shop and the owner started screaming things to us in french about “tourists that never buy something, and that we need to buy everything we touched”. Very unpleasent experience and very unkind owner, don’t go...