Monday 28th September - Place du Capitole The facade of the Capitole building dates back to 1750-1760 s decorated by statues and eight marble columns. The buildings right wing houses the Theatre du Capitale. The inner courtyard is adorned with the coats of arms of the Capitouls, traditional magistrates who governed the city of old.

Monday 28th September - The Afternoon in Toulouse The Metro in about a 10 minute walk from the apartment so we headed off and bought tickets for two days and went into the city centre and got off the train at Jean Jarres station. We went up to the surface on the escalator and came out in bright sunlight. Seeing that it was nearly 2 oclock and we were feeling hungry we stopped at Hippopotamus for a salad lunch and a beer, small and medium. The salads that ...

Monday 28th September - The Road to Toulouse Getting out of town was very straight forward and with no turnoffs we headed for Toulouse. We stopped at a roadside truck stop for a coffee!! At least the truck stops in Britain make you a free coffee but here we first had to decypher the language on the machine and then we put our money in and both got a cup of very dubious cappuccino and a watery cafe double. Back into the car and drove the final bit to Toulo...

Monday 28th September - Moving Morning from Carcassonne We got ourselves organised and had breakfast and did all our packing and went to pick up the car from the parking building about a 10 minute walk away from our apartment. The car was still there so that was a bonus but there was red and white tape along in front of it but that may be to stop people parking there today or sometime in the future?? We drove out from the underground parking building and ...

Sunday 27th September - Musee We finished our meals, paid the bill of €34 and walked back down to the main entrance to head for home. We had been up in the Cite for 4 plus hours and the legs were feeling a little weak and the body was hot and we wanted a rest. No getting lost today and we headed downhill and across the Old Bridge and at the Square Gambetta we got to the Musee and it was open so we went in and although Jan thought that there was a €7 c...