Weekend in Toulouse

It was last weekend, but I have been slow blogging it.

I fly in to Toulouse every Thursday, so we thought a weekend there would be a nice chance for Doug to get some city life as well as saving me the two hour drive each way. I worked from the hotel on Friday and Doug got the train up to join me in the afternoon. A friend took Poppy and another one fed and watered the multitude of pigs, chickens, quails, rabbits and cat.

We went to the Opera on Friday. There is a dedicated opera house and it seeme very popular.

The production was interesting with strippers in the Harem and a random couple who weren't part of the plot but were on stage some of the time either fighting or 'lovin'

The singing was very good as was the orchestra. Isabella (the italian girl of the title) made suspending disbelief and seeing her as super attractive a little difficult due to her immense size but sung well.

Strippers and the fighting couple bowing

On Saturday we hired some bikes (which are like the London 'Boris Bikes')

We had dinner later in the day in the restaurant opposite this lot of bikes.

We had curry in the evening. It didn't really look this green, there were some lights that phased through different colours and I caught them at a bad moment. Wandering around Toulouse, we have discovered loads and loads of Indian restaurants. We need to go back and try more of them!

This street had several, so putting the sign here to remind us for next time.

Cycling around we had a few snacks, all food really good. We went along the river and saw various churches and picturesque streets.

On Sunday the weather was less lovely so we spent even more time eating! We saw a strange sight in the main square of loads of people line dancing in the rain.

Yummy!

We were under shelter but outside watching the strange spectacle!

We had a lovely weekend and only missed the dog a little bit.