Then off into town to wander round some more, taking a ride on the road train. There are two of these that take different routes around the town with a commentary and its a good way to find out where things are . Unfortunately only one route was available, this was due to roads being closed for a football match that was taking place at the weekend.
We also went on the open top CityTour bus which took us to the more outlying parts of the city.
Once we had our bearings it was off on foot. Lots of the streets are semi pedestrianised with rising bollards stopping unauthorised traffic. On the main roads the pavements are quite wide, probably 5mt. which is just as well as you share not only with cyclists but skate boarders and Segway users. We visited all the local tourist spots including the local parks.
We also visited the Toulouse museum
suspended walkway running round the front of it.
The one on the west side is owned by EDF and is open to the public but we didn’t have time to visit.
The river Garonne is connected to the Canal du Midi and the Canal latéral à la Garonne by a very short canal know as the Canal de Brienne, this joins the River Garonne just above the weir on the east side via a lock under a bridge.
While looking for somewhere to eat we found a nice little restaurant tucked away in the entrance to an art gallery housed in Hotel d' Assezat. The gallery was closed and we didn’t eat there as it was tucked away so there was nothing to watch while you eat, very important when eating outside in my opinion. One thing that struck us was the double helix of the columns at one of the entrances, did they know something about DNA?
So as you can see we had a couple of full days in Toulouse.
Our Barge Holiday starts HERE
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