Hotel Palladia Toulouse
271 Ave de Grande Bretagne Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, 31300, France
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French cats eat croissants
... know how beautiful it is. As the Lonely Planet guide says, this extraordinary Gothic structure defies gravity. It is also where the body of Thomas Aquinas lies.
It is interesting that in many parts of town you would not know it is Christmas. There are no decorations and no tinsel in the shops. Even the churches we saw today had nothing to indicate the season. Then we arrived at Capitol Place and found a full Christmas ...
Footloose in Toulouse
... vous plait. Et un tarte citron, merci. All that Year 12 French is trickling back!
We arrived in Toulouse, the ville rose, because of its red colour. It was named as the best place to live in France at one stage and is another university town at the junction of two rivers. This is as far south as we will go, but it is no warmer because it is a fair way inland.
Today was an example of having to be ...
Caraman: L’Arbre aux Legumes
... small farm, she had had a steady stream of volunteers, most of whom were Anglophone.Amélie is a strong woman – physically and in her convictions and drive. Her roughened hands (one with two broken fingers from an accident with a cement mixer a few days before we arrived) give an impression of the tough life she leads.
Speaking of her broken fingers, Amélie tells us about the harsh reality of running your own farm. “The nurse keeps telling me that I ...
A tale of three churches
... us. These three churches all tried to represent an authentic place of worship (and tourist sight) in very different ways. We left the Convent and braved the 35 degree heat in our own ongoing search of the best patisserie in town – another vacuous search for authenticity, perhaps, but once we found Le Poisson Bleu on Rue Alsace-Lorraine and dug into our gooey lemon meringue tarts, somehow the tourist gaze didn’t seem so bad after all.
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Bye-bye Raye, Hello Toulouse
... unlikely) hope that it may return.
The Japanese garden is a beautiful and carefully crafted oasis of calm in this bustling place; numerous beautiful parks and squares pepper the city, each with its own particular charm; two of the three major religious buildings are stunning examples of religious architecture, art and design (see our next blog entry); and their history of welcoming with open arms many of the exiled republican, anarchist and communist ...



