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Country mice escape to the city

Wednesday morning Anita and myself left for a overnight stay in the big smoke, Toulouse. After a quick detour to Ikea we hit our normal parking at the metro station the wrong way. This resulted in a little panic for Anita as we headed for the city centre. Abandoning the car by the canal we left to find miss F for a quick bite to eat, re parked the car outside miss F's apartment and hit the city.


Toulouse is a very easy to get about place, not to big to explore.


Capitol, this is where the mayors office , municipal offices, theatre and opera are housed. markets are held in the grand square, opposite are restaurants and bars.


At the other side of the building is the mtetro station and tourist office. what we miss is shopping.

The first time we visited we found an amazing vintage clothes shop called GrouchO selling clothes from 1800 to 1900. we've been unable to find it since but found its sister shop selling vintage clothes and accessories from 1900's to 1970's. You can find there web site here http://www.groucho-retro.com/


We managed to eat too coffee, tea and cake at Bapz, an English tea room with china from England.


And drink a glass of wine or two.


We took a stroll around the Japanese gardens, very peaceful.


 along the Garonne river


Before our trip back to the country.



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