Friday 2nd October - Coffee stop at the Roadside Truck Stop We pulled in after about 1 hour 20 minutes and had a coffee from the machine which was better than the last time we tried this.We got back on the road and the motorway as it passed Carcassonne turned into a 3 lane affair and was like that all the way to our turnoff for Perpignan. Not a lot of traffic on our side of the motorway and the trip into Perpignan wasn't as straight forward as we would have like...

Friday 2nd October - The Drive from Toulouse to Perpignan We got up early and had toast and raspberry jam, (all that was left in the fridge) and packed the car and said our goodbyes to Catherine.She had to come home from Spain just so we could leave and hand her the keys! We got out of the street that the apartment is in and turned left and at the next intersection we couldn't go straight ahead as there were construction vans and no way through. So we turned le...

Thursday 1st October - Homeward Bound but with a bit of Walking to be done yet! We started down some of these little streets in order to find a shoe shop that we had been into earlier. Shoes for Kev!! We needed a loo and the nearest coffee shop was the closest we could find so we had a coffee and a loo stop before heading out in search of the street first and then the shop?? No way amongst all of these narrow streets did we find anything close but we did ...

Thursday 1st October - Le Pont Neuf After lunch we climbed the steps to get up to the street level to cross the Pont Neuf. Seems every town with a river also has a Pont Neuf! The weather was warm and no wind and we wandered across the Pont Neuf to an area of Toulouse that was obviously inhabited by people of African origin. All of the shops had darker clothing and we have never seen so many hair dressing shops all in a row. A lot of this area we had alrea...

Thursday 1st October - Lunch by The Garonne We eventually found our way down to the banks of the Garonne and there was a lovely little cafe set into the wall of the river. "Pecheurs du Sable" and the chap serving behind the counter actually came outside to show us the menu on the boards outside. He spoke little English but knew the All Blacks and was a passionate rugby fan. He even suggested that we come down to the boat tonight and watch the two games and h...