We just got back from a short stay in Toulouse
We looked for somewhere easily accessible from Bordeaux, somewhere to explore, somewhere we didn't know too well. The buses to Pau and to Bayonne from Pessac are not running at the moment, but there were really good fares from Bordeaux to Toulouse, and we found a nice flat for 5 on AirBnB available when we needed it.
The bus was as OK as any of these kinds of things are. Long train journeys, flights, bus trips, they're all a bit awful, but if you have music and something to read then they're OK.
The flat was super. Very stylish. Two bedrooms, so Pat and I had one and the two girls the other. Gwilym slept on a sofa bed in the living room. There were windows onto the street (see below) and a nice balcony over a private little courtyard with a big-leaved catalpa and a nice, black cat.
The flat was very near the Palais de Justice and not far from the river. There were supermarkets, bakers and cafés all around.
The one drawback with the flat was the way the front windows faced the street. During the day it was quiet, almost traffic-free. At night it was NUTS! The early hours of the morning had loud drunks, rubbish collectors and something I can only imagine to be a street washing machine. Why so early? I mean like 3 or 4 am.
We visited the tomb of Thomas Aquinas and some of the Toulouse parks, as well as the Japanese Garden and the Basilique de Saint-Sernin. We also used a Citiz car to go to Carcassonne, which was very hot and very crowded indeed!
I'll pop some photos on over the next few days.
The bus was as OK as any of these kinds of things are. Long train journeys, flights, bus trips, they're all a bit awful, but if you have music and something to read then they're OK.
The flat was super. Very stylish. Two bedrooms, so Pat and I had one and the two girls the other. Gwilym slept on a sofa bed in the living room. There were windows onto the street (see below) and a nice balcony over a private little courtyard with a big-leaved catalpa and a nice, black cat.
The flat was very near the Palais de Justice and not far from the river. There were supermarkets, bakers and cafés all around.
The one drawback with the flat was the way the front windows faced the street. During the day it was quiet, almost traffic-free. At night it was NUTS! The early hours of the morning had loud drunks, rubbish collectors and something I can only imagine to be a street washing machine. Why so early? I mean like 3 or 4 am.
We visited the tomb of Thomas Aquinas and some of the Toulouse parks, as well as the Japanese Garden and the Basilique de Saint-Sernin. We also used a Citiz car to go to Carcassonne, which was very hot and very crowded indeed!
I'll pop some photos on over the next few days.
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