Our last full day in Toulouse. On our list today are a few places we haven't visited yet. It is crazy windy out, when the wind blows here it really blows, and it is also cold.
Started of by visiting 2 markets. The one just around the corner from our place, The Carmes Market. Then we walked over to the Victor Hugo market which is more in the center of town. Andre put the market pictures on a separate blog.
One thing on our list is to visit Toulouse Cathedral, or Saint Etienne Cathedral also known as St Stephen's Cathedral. Depends of you are searching in French or in English for it. What is a day in Europe without at least one church visit! It is from the 3rd century and gone through lots of transformations since then.
Next was Andre wanted to see the boats at the canal, we had walked along the canal earlier in the week but there were no boats, today we are off to see boats. Well, that lasted about 1 minute, it was so extremely windy it was nearly scary walking along the canals. Saw a couple of people on bikes, that was borderline dangerous.
The parks we wanted to visit were right around the corner, arrived there and all the gates were locked. There are many different entrances but all locked with a sign something about police. Oh well off we go walking some more. Ended up at tourist information square again and I went in to see if it was high alert for terrorism or why the parks were locked, turns out it was the wind. Just not safe with all the trees, yes it was that windy! On our walking tour the first day we heard about James Colomina and 3 red statues he had placed around the city and one of his statues was in a park we wanted to visit, so that didn't happen but we did get a picture from a long distance.
Tourist information told us about a shopping center we could go to the top floor for a good view of the city, something we had totally forgotten about. So we are off to the 6th floor of the Gallery Lafayette. There is a bar/restaurant up top, we had no problem getting an outdoor seat, it was so windy, cold and a little spit of rain. We each had Pastis, anisette liquor that you add water.
Back home quickly to try to beat the rain. Stop to pick up some Madeleines cakes to bring to Quebec for a treat when we see everyone tomorrow. Make it back to the apartment just in time as the rain really starts. Luckily we have picked up gnocchi and sauce for supper at the little Italian shop around the corner for supper, would not have been nice to head out tonight.
Steps 16,600 or 10.5 km
A mixed bags of pictures from todays walks.
The place where we got pasta to cook at home
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