Present-day Aquitaine has much to offer. The Dordogne is famous for its truffles. (To hunt for truffles, you'll need a truffle-pig and a truffle-stick: the pig to find the truffles and the stick to stop the pig eating them.) In the Basque region (the southern bit near Spain) bull-fighting is popular - though not with the bulls. The Dune de Pilat is the largest sand-dune in Europe, and it's moving inland at a rate of 5 metres a year (they MOVE?) The Bassin d'Arachon is a huge lagoon famous for oysters. Oysters can change sex several times during their life-span. This indicates frivolity on their part. Gender reassignment is a serious matter and should only be undertaken after much consideration.
Bordeaux is also the centre of France's aeronautic industry, and produces the cockpit of the A380 airbus, the boosters of the Ariane 5 rocket and the M51 missile. Now that would make quite a plane. In case you were wondering, the Ariane 5 is an expendable launch system designed to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit, while the M51 is a missile with six independently targetable TN75 thermonuclear warheads. Clear now?
Almost as alarming as Aquitaine's nuclear capability is the Vine Pull Scheme. Not content with turning millions of bottles of drinkable wine into industrial alcohol every year the EU (boo hiss) have decided to reduce the wine lake further by paying farmers to tear up their vines! This must be stopped!
La Résidence - THE French Property People
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