Le Grand Balcon Toulouse
8 Rue Romiguieres, on Capitole place Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, 31000 , France
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Toulouse / Nimes / Ales
02/10 – Toulouse
Domingo = Dia da preguiça e que não há hora para levantar....
O sol clareava a manhã de céu extremamente azul, sem uma nuvem.
O contraste com as paredes de tijolinho justificam ser …
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... 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
... guesthouse owner. Apparently we had to wait until 4pm, so there we were with our luggage on the footpath. We eventually took a taxi (that's another story) and did what we usually do and went to a gallery! The St Augustine Museum used to be a beautiful abbey and now houses a wonderful collection of sculpture and paintings. Some highlights were Manet, Toulouse Lautrec, Delacroix and Rubens. I liked the cloister garden full ...
Caraman: L’Arbre aux Legumes
... of glass jars containing a colourful array
of spices, preserves, grains and other foodie delights. In a former life, Laurent toyed with becoming a chef, but now he cooks for enjoyment and, in turn, Amélie has also caught the bug. Food – its production, its politics, its preparation (and consumption!) – seems to be everything to this young couple, both 30 years of age.
Well, perhaps not quite everything. A feint squeaky mewing emanates from the ...
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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