GETTING THERE
British Airways (ba.com), easyJet (easyjet.com) and Ryanair (ryanair. com) fly to Bordeaux. Voyages
SNCF (voyages-sncf.com) offers return fares from London St Pancras to Bordeaux from £111. The Intercontinental Le Grand
Hotel (bordeaux.intercontinental.com/en/) offers rooms from £218, including breakfast. Frank Mannion’s movie, Marie Curie: The Courage Of Knowledge, opens on November 7 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of her birth.