It was a day off, so rather than cycle into Toulouse I decided to take the metro. The nearest station was Ramonville, about 2.5km for the crow, but about 5km for me, because of the canal and motorway in the way. I probably walked somewhere that I shouldn't have, but I got there anyway. The metro line took a very weird twisting route to get into the city centre. Once there I enjoyed walking around, and spent some time in the Musee des Augustins (fine art) and t...

At half past midnight last night I had booked two nights in a hotel in Toulouse. Once again a budget hotel (Innostar - see photo opposite) at 43 Euros/night, in the outlying South-East suburb of Labege. I must have been feeling quite fit, as the distance was just over 100 miles (161km). What I hadn't realised yesterday was that there was rather a lot of climbing involved (978m) because the route went against the grain of the land, with several deep river crossing...