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MAGICAL TOULOUSE - THE PINK CITY
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“We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone” – Katie Thurmes
ften, when planning a trip to France from the UK, we tended to stick around the golden coastline of Normandy with ‘wishes’ in the near future to travel all of La Belle France, after all there’s a lot to discover. Since the pandemic, we have of course stayed close to home, albeit a temporary home in the south west but spent many an evening talking about travel and where we would love to visit when the world finally opens up again. Toulouse came up in our planning conversations several times as a possibility as we were intrigued by the ‘Pink City’ title. Once we were hooked on the sunny skies and sunflower fields of the Charente, our appetite to discover the rest of France was whetted, no matter how long the road to travel would be!
“Of course one should not drink much, but often.” — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Our post pandemic bucket list also grew substantially when we started house hunting again in the summer of 2021. By then, we were prepared to look at anything, anywhere that took our fancy. No limits. We had finally put to bed the need to stay close to the ferries in order to get home to Blighty, and by doing so, we felt free. Every French city, town and village became our possible future home! Toulouse seems a lifetime away from the UK or Normandy and it’s easy to feel it would be difficult to get there and back in good time. Toulouse is nearly 840 miles from Caen and takes around 8 hours by road! By train, just four hours from Paris, by TGV. France is indeed vast, so there’s no getting away from the fact that nipping back to the UK, for ‘a taste of home’ wouldn’t be easy, but I think Brexit has made that super tough anyway!
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