Travel Blogs from Toulouse, France
Catching the train...again
Toulouse is 110 miles from Aucun, so I decided to make it a two-day journey. In planning my route to Toulouse, Olivier and Thibaut helped me look for an open campground halfway to Toulouse. We could not find any place other than a nudist ...
Short but very sweet...
... have been keeping an eye out for (there is something that we found exceptional about European kebabs). Signs of Toulouse being a larger city were also evident as there were plenty of people zipping around in business attire, people asking for ...
French Summer
... to check out the larger city of Toulouse, and was rewarded with an engaging, cosmopolitan city with a decidedly country flair. Toulouse is on the route for pilgrims along the Santiago de Compostella, and its architecture reflects the glory of heavenly ...
From El Toro to Le Mooooooooo
... restaurant. Very interesting to hear how university is for them, coming from outside the country, and what they think of living in Toulouse. We wandered out for one more drink and then headed back for a good night's sleep (watching our step along the ...
Bonjour!
Arrgghh! I now live in France. No more baked beans for me for a whole year! Nooo! Anyway I now live in Toulouse which is very pretty. I from now on I will just update on our trips, but will do a Toulouse update when I leave. A ...
Rain Rain GO AWAY!!!
... the city. There weren't taxi's in the area I was staying. Turns out that the sign was broken and the tram came :) I got to Toulouse and checked in the hostel around 3:30. I gathered my things to go out and it started pouring. I waited about an hour ...
Toulouse
... finally found a place 20 ks out of Toulouse so we booked it for 2 nights deciding to spend the next day in Toulouse. What a beautiful city - red/pink brick buildings, amazing galleries and the resting place of St Thomas Aquinas in an incredible church. ...
To lose in Toulouse
... nieder, bevor ich zum Didgeridoo-Menschen und spaeter zu den spanischen -oder sind es brasilianische?- Trommlern wechsle. Toulouse, du hast mich sofort gefangen genommen. Eigentlich kitschig, eine Stadt zu dutzen. Aber Toulouse ist reizend. Okay, ...
A tale of three churches
... cherub faces. This chapel is one of fourteen in the Cathedrale St Etienne, one of the three key Catholic buildings in Toulouse. The whole cathedral is a bastion of gawdy self-indulgence that only the Catholic church, it seems, can really produce. At the ...
Several days before - Booking
... 45. On the way back, take-off is at 22:15 from Dubai to land in Paris at 06:35. Actually since we were flying from Toulouse and to avoid multiple connexions we asked for a direct flight between Paris and Dubai. We got one, for almost the same price, on ...
Toulouse
... off to the bar for happy hour which started at 9. His friend drove us to the bar, and parking always seems to be a task in france. The bar was so crowded, packed with people shoulder to shoulder! some more friends met us out and we had three or four ...
Rediscovering my town
This entry is mainly for my friends around the world who don't know my town and my life here in Toulouse... I have started going round the town and taking pictures but it feel strange to take pictures of things I know so well!!! I will carry on ...
The 7 Days of Toulouse
Bonjour les voyageurs! So far, Toulouse is everything it's said to be- relaxing! The Crowne Plaza is luxury and comfortable to stay in. There is most of the things that you would expect in a French hotel. The beds are soft and nicely made ...
Toulouse
... 7am flight to Toulouse, we were greeted at the airport by Michel and his lovely son Melvin. We spent two days in Toulouse with Michel and Myriam, (Thank you for your hospitality) who have a beautiful house right near Place Du Capitole (A square ...
Jeans and hoodie day!
... useful but at times it rained so hard that you just had to find shelter for a few minutes. I have decided that I really like Toulouse... Each city has been different in its own way but Toulouse has some great parts. I like the rivers that go through it ...
Bye-bye Raye, Hello Toulouse
... a trek around the all-but-deserted city in search of a tasty French breakfast of pastries and coffee. Toulouse is a relatively poor former industrial city struggling to reinvent itself with stiff competition from bigger and more successful neighbours ...
Barcelona to Toulouse
... . On arrival, we headed directly to the train station and managed to get one of the few trains operating out of town. At Narbonne, I said goodbye to my newly adopted family and transferred onto the Toulouse train. Exciting day, and I finally made ...
Travel, travel and more freaking travel
Oh to be the travel weary in only the first week. I arrive in France hoping to get a train connection to Toulouse at 7.30am after arriving at 7am. I have miscalculate my days by one day and I need to get to Toulouse on Friday not on ...
It isnt the breaths that we take, but the moments
It isn`t the breaths that we take but the moments that take our breath away. This could be true for some of the sights of Toulouse but it is also due the fact I have a lung cacacity of zero but can still manage to walk for hours straight. And god ...
Cemeteries and Rain and Southern France
... ate on top of my 'stuffedness', making walking the two blocks to my hotel quite an effort! The next day I just wandered around Toulouse - the Capitol building, the Garonne, the city squares, St. Sernin, etc. A lovely little town in the south of ...

