It isn't. Even though its on the water and the gateway to the Gironde region (which so far is pretty spectacular) the town of Blaye would be best experienced this way: find out when the ferry leaves for Lemarque and arrange to arrive in Blaye 15 minutes beforehand.
As I write this post, episode 6, season 6 of Breaking Bad is downloading to my phone. The place that I stayed at in Blaye last night advertised free wifi. When I got there I found out that wifi was only available for devices running WINDOWS! No iPhones or iPads, no Samsung galaxies, no androids of any kind - just windows. Breakfast this morning was 7.5e and was a cup of coffee, a glass of oj and yesterday's bread.
The ferry out the Charente Marine region to the Gironde was glorious, and the walk to Bordeaux was great too. Vineyards all over the place. Zero corn. Zero sunflowers. All red grapes. The bunched are perfectly formed but it looks to me like they have a couple more weeks until they're ready to be picked and stomped.
The wineries are hearing up though. This place seemed to be power washing all of their equipment and had just received this supply of wine bottles. 
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