St Claire Hotel Toulouse

What a bit of luck. Aymericks aunt took me to rennes to catch the bus to spain at 930.
Arrived in rennes for 830, ayms aunt left and i went to eurolines to buy my ticket but it was closed. The sign said it opened at 9, so id still have 30mins to get my ticket and go to the bus station.
Had a coffee, went back at 9, still closed, went to bus station, went back to eurolines still closed, and now its 920am.

****, another week in France! Sod that, i ran to the bus ...

... of them, there was a massive dining room, living room with oldfashioned english walls with white stucco and wooden beams, a nice sized kitchen, an upstairs balcony overlooking the living room and several bathrooms with showers. I was not expecting so much luxury on my trip. I got my own room and Mael, the main host, was an amazing cook. For lunch when I arrived he prepared white fish with onions and lots of great seasoning over a bed of mashed potatoes. After lunch ...

Visiter quelques musées gratuit, (à cause du festival ''printemps à Toulouse'') c'est toujours rentable !

Nous avons fait le musée des augustins. Il y a plein de statues et de vieilles pieces murales des églises de Toulouse.

Ensuite la Basilique St-Sernin, très jolie puisque son cloché est illuminé le soir.

Et finalement les Abattoirs, avec un tat d'art dont du ne comprend jamais vraiment la signification (l'art modern...).

... that we could follow him home. They live on an old farm where he has worked on renovating the farm house for the last 15 years. There property is perfect. It’s about 2+ acres and it’s surrounded by farmland. No neighbors nearby. It’s wonderful. We would like something similar, maybe a bit more land. Conrad & Claude caught up. They haven’t seen each other in 30+ years. It was interesting watching them reminisce. We got ...

... to dry. Here I was with a pair of shorts that I’d washed last night drying on the back of my bike. Strange how life can change, and things you never thought possible come true.

Other than Paris, we haven’t been to any bigger centers in France, and nothing with our bikes. Luckily, the canal and river paths helped us through most of the way. That is until giant ...

... 8216;rough’ night. The canal was filled with people taking their after work stroll or cycle so there was no way we could stop.

Still we were both scanning the countryside and banks of the canal looking for an appropriate plate to set up camp. But being too busy, we pressed onward. In between towns, we also were running into the problems of no place being remote enough. We weren’t going to ...

... with about another 6 boats. This was a lovely trip as the Lot is a very wide lazy river. As part of upgrading it for tourism they have built some spectacular new locks including a 13 m one (the second biggest in France)! Much to everyones relief they opened up the Baize for the afternoon and in escorted convoys of 2 we made it into the canal system and onto the Canal Lateral la Garonne. Over ...

... on where the different parts were made (England, Germany, France and Spain) and how they were transported to Toulouse. The smaller part in Belugas (large ugly transport planes), the parts to large for the planes, by boat, barge and finally road convoy over 3 nights. Knowing how narrow some of these roads are it's amazing they get through at all. Many of the party decided to go into Toulouse afterwards, Peter had had enough and wanted home, which was fine with me ...

... Nos recherches ne donnant rien, en bas de 52 Euros du moins, nous prenons le métro vers un hôtel Ibis Formule 1 (NDA : sorte de chaîne d'hôtels internationale, bas de gamme mais bien fourni), situé en banlieue. Complet ! Tout comme d'ailleurs l'Auberge de Jeunesse de 120 places que j'ai déjà contacté de chez Patrick. Qu'est-ce qui se passe, pour que tous les hôtels, tous les B&B, toutes les Auberges soient pleines à capacité tout d'un coup ? On nous dit que c'est la ...

... I was going the right way. Excitment of having just landed in France! We found that a train was heading to Bordeaux in about 45mins (at 13:35), it was already in the platform so we bought "deux sandwiches mixte" for lunch, only to find that "mixte" means ham and cheese. Very mixed indeed! We ate onboard the train, grabbing prime positions for our luggage and seats. It was a conventional loco hauled train of around 12 carriages. This was another long ...