Up early this morning and on the road to Toulouse. First stop was the Airbus factory. We had booked and paid online for a tour done in English, as had a lot of other people for whom English was not the first language. We began the tour in the telemetry room and were shown a film of the first test flight of the Airbus A380 in 2005. The pilots were wearing helmets and parachutes. They also showed us the testing the aircraft has to go through so they can see how i...

What a lovely day! We took ourselves off to Olonzac directly after our leisurely breakfast, for today was market day! As we were leaving the car park though, we noticed there were three vans parked there, selling meats, cheeses and fruit and veggies. We drove through the countryside and then parked and strolled through the markets. We bought some cheeses, more tomatoes including a huge wrinkly one called a beefsteak tomato, a loaf of bread, some fig and nut pas...

So today is another public holiday in France! I think there are about five in May! We had a relaxed breakfast and then went for a walk around our village - it is so picturesque!! I took lots of pictures - couldn't stop myself! All of the shops were closed, but the abbey (built in 791AD, with recent additions in the 12th and 14th centuries!) and the tourist information office were open. The French girl in the tourist office spoke fluent English with an English a...

It really was a wonderful day! And it was nice to wake up somewhere that is "our bedroom" for 2 whole weeks. So after brekky, at almost 9am, we wandered down the narrow cobbled lanes and across the bridge to the public car park where Wendy was waiting with her van. Wendy is an English woman who teaches winemaking and runs these wonderful, informative and educational tours, and she has just bought a "ruin" to be renovated, opting to live over here full time. We ...

What a day! Up at 3.30am (yes, there is another 3.30 in the day), to be showered, shaved and shampooed and checked out by 4.30am. Trundle up to the tram stop (which is only for a #7) to find all sorts of numbered trams coming at us. A little man explained that its Saturday and they're all coming from the depot. So Switzerland on a Saturday is not perfect. Gee. We got ourselves down to their central station and worked out that Flughafen is German for airport, an...