Toulouse, France Travel Blogs

French Summer
Aug 29, 2007 (30 photos)

... 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 ...

Toulouse.
Sep 3, 2009

Toulouse work trip.

From El Toro to Le Mooooooooo
Apr 24, 2007 (8 photos)

... . 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 way, there ...

toulouse
Apr 8, 2005

to the plane!

driving around the south of france
Apr 13, 2009

Today we made a day of a small road trip around the south of france

Bonjour!
Sep 16, 2004 (11 photos)

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 plus!

Toulouse
Jun 17, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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
Mar 26, 2006 (1 photos)

... 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, ...

Toulouse
Apr 9, 2009

... 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 bottles ...

Rediscovering my town
Oct 20, 2007 (12 photos)

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 ...

Spanish Party w JerryAl in Levignac near Toulouse
May 24, 2009 (17 photos)

Toulouse
Aug 25, 2008 (10 photos)

... for his mum 14 years ago was still there. Our favourite part of Toulouse would have to be the Point Neuf Bridge, near the river. Toulouse known as the pink city (la villa rose) because of the profusion of red-rose brick buildings. 14.5 times 2 equal 29. ...

Barcelona to Toulouse
May 23, 2008

... . 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 it!!

back home!
Apr 8, 2005

home sweet home

Back to Toulouse
Apr 29, 2009

Just an entry to get the map pin back to Toulouse.

Cemeteries and Rain and Southern France
Apr 15, 2009 (23 photos)

... 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 France ...

Travel, travel and more freaking travel
Apr 11, 2008

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 Saturday.& ...

It isnt the breaths that we take, but the moments
Apr 14, 2008

... 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 only ...

Cest magnifique idee!
Apr 14, 2008 (2 photos)

... -filet de 250 grammes accompagnée de frites maison à volonté et de sa fameuse sauce. Son fils Henri, à son tour, a monté Toulouse en 1962, Bordeaux en 1966, Nantes en 1980, Montpellier en 1990 et enfin Lyon en 1999. Ces restaurants se ...

Ten Things We Love About France
Sep 1, 2008 (4 photos)

... we go. We would like to try to work in France for a while before returning home. Ten Things We Love About France........   1- Fresh bread and Pain au Chocolate every morning. 2- Beautiful summer days, cloudless skies, and the warmth of the ...

Suffacating in French trains
Jul 2, 2008

... too small for our luggage. We had a few hours and we were going to go visit my uncle's gallery. He is an artist in France and his gallery is in Toulousse. But taking into consideration the time crunch, my illness, and our stuff, we didn't go and just hung ...

Ou est les Pharmacy? or Where the feck is a Dr?
Apr 13, 2008 (8 photos)

... I light q candle for Dad then we walk towards the Garonne which is the huge River that goes through the centre of town.  Toulouse is known as the PINK CITY as the buildings and rooftops are pink and salmon colour, it is a very pretty city and easy to ...

Toulouse
Apr 28, 2009

... old city. Expecting lots of photo ops, and will get a much better look at the countryside. Will be back in Toulouse tomorrow evening, and then depart on 3-day excursion on Friday; much too detailed to mention here. Still pinching myself to think I´m ...

Toulouse et le environs
Jul 16, 2005 (8 photos)

... in Toulouse on Wednesday. I'm staying in the Centre de Ville in Hotel D'Ulmo, which was built in the 1500's when Toulouse was a really rich Renaissance town. (I found this pic on the internet) where Anne-Claire's family lives. Hotel acutally means it was ...

leave
Apr 9, 2005

missed my train cause i was too drunken the night before to leave!

End of the cycling trip....
Aug 12, 2007 (1 photos)

Wow! Quel voyage jusqu'a maintenant! Je rencontre Annie ce matin a l'aeroport de Toulouse pour 2 semaines de visites. Le velo va etre dorenavant etre dans le coffre de l'auto! Salut Pat

Bonne Année 2005!
Jan 3, 2005

... statistics about the deprivation of rail in Australia and overseas, but that's another story for another day. We finally arrived in Toulouse at 7:50pm, luckily our hotel was across the road from the station, our room has a nice view of the large building ...

17 mai 2006 : L'Enfer sur Terre
May 18, 2006 (6 photos)

... sans le moindre succès. Déçus, on abandonne à contre-coeur la solution du sud-ouest, on refait la pancarte en écrivant "Toulouse" (destination totalement imprévue), et on recommence, un peu à bout. On n'a pourtant rien vu encore... Pourtant, la chance semble ...

Virgin: More Experience than Their Name Suggests
Jan 4, 2005 (1 photos)

... escapades so far in France, struggling with a French keyboard. We had changed our original plans for the south of France before departure so we could be in Toulouse for the full day of the 2/01/05. We spent this day as envisaged: at the cité de l'espace, ...

Du vin et du fromage
Jun 3, 2007 (91 photos)

... pour les erreurs. Nous sommes arrivé à Toulouse le 3 juin, et nous avons habité avec une famille Française pendant un mois. Toulouse est une ville d'environ 800,000 habitants dans le sud du pays. Nous venons de terminer un cours de Français avec l'Alliance ...