Showing posts with label Trebes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trebes. Show all posts

Friday, May 17, 2019

À bientôt et bienvenue in Toulouse!

Tuesday, May 7th, 2019

We were up early this morning to make sure our “Peugeot Airbus/ Navette” made it on time for its scheduled run to Toulouse-Blagnac Airport . 
A little tongue and cheek! 
Our rental car this trip is a Peugeot 2008 and Toulouse is the home of Airbus headquarters along with the production location of many Airbus models.

The Navette is a very efficient shuttle service that goes from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to Toulouse Matabiau station every 20 minutes with several stops on the way. 

Nowadays there is also tram service that runs into the city of Toulouse from the airport. 

When we first started travelling to Europe together back in 2003, Monsieur Honey and I did so without rental cars. 
We did most of our travelling by bus and train. 
One of my most memorable experiences was travelling with a Eurail Pass on our first adventure; we spent four days in Paris, took a train from Gare d’Austerlitz to Cahors (in the Lot Valley) where our French Connection friends met us. 
We spent a few days with them in Belaye, then ventured off on the train. 
We saw so much/many different areas of France ... 
Arles, Avignon, Carcassonne, Collioure, Orange  and many other places and we finished our travels on the train into Belgium for a week. We TGV’ed our way from Brussels to Paris CDG for our return flight home.
Just a little trip down memory lane ... these days we travel by rental car. 

The sky was lit up in glorious hues and shades of orange, pink and red as the sun was rising. 



Our friend Laury’s visit was ending; she was meeting up with another friend at the Airport for an overnight visit before returning to her home in Cadrieu. 
Daughter, Jennifer’s flight from Canada was scheduled to land at 10:30AM. 


We said au revoir / à bientôt to Laury and bienvenue to Jennifer.  
We headed back to Montlaur with a stop in Trebes for lunch on the Quai along the Canal du Midi.





A nice easy start for Jennifer’s French week! 




 

Thursday, May 2, 2019

May Day / Labour Day ...

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 



Today is a “Bank Holiday” in France, almost everything is closed ... with exception of cafés / restaurants in tourist areas. 
We are staying in a tiny village and most definitely everything is closed.

Happy May 1st Day ... here’s my bouquet of lily of valley for all of you! 
 “In France, May 1st is a national holiday – it’s their ‘Labor Day’. One of the ways the French celebrate this holiday is by offering a small bouquet of lily of the valley (“muguet-du-bois”, in French) to loved ones and to friends, to symbolise ‘good luck’ and ‘love’. That is why May 1st, i.e., ‘May Day’ is also known as, “La Fête du Muguet”.

We weren’t too ambitious today and just went for a short drive to Trebes located on the Canal du Midi.
The Quai was busy with families, visitors enjoying the holiday.






We enjoyed our wander and a stop on the waterfront for an apero in the sunshine and some people watching.Trebes is on our list for a repeat visit, we were here many years ago (first time in 2005) and took a boat tour along the Canal thru the locks .
Here’s Monsieur Honey sporting his “Ernest Hemingway” look on our cruise (2005) along the Canal du Midi. 

 

View of the Canal du Midi from the boat ...



The sun was shining brightly and the temperatures warmed up as the day went on ... which provided a perfect excuse for some relaxing on our terrace in the afternoon.
      

I was able to do some catch up on my photo editing and blogging. 
Monsieur was top chef and created a delicious menu with the “Toulouse Sausage” we purchased from the local butcher for our supper ... and bonus it was warm enough to enjoy our dinner al fresco on the terrace. 








Saturday, July 5, 2014

Enroute to Olonzac

#Degagnac#Carcasonne##Trebes#Olonzac

Today we said "Au revoir" to Dégagnac and the Lot Valley ... Merci beaucoup for the hospitality to Madame M. et Monsieur Guy.



We headed southeast to the Languedoc - Roullison for our last week in France ... 

The drive was very uneventful ... which is good!

We did make a stop on the highway at an "Aire" ... similar to a service area on the 401 in Ontario ... we chose this one because it had a "Viewpoint" overlooking the Medieval City of Carcassonne.


Remember this is where the movie "Robin Hood The Prince of Thieves" was filmed ... maybe I will rent this DVD when the grandkids visit.

We stayed here during our first French adventure in 2003 and it was a magical night. 



Oh la- la Monsieur Honey  ... "Where has the time gone?" 


Our next stop was along the Canal du Midi in Trebes ... time for lunch.






This restaurant was right next to one of the locks on the river ....



It was here in the summer of 2005 that my own "Mr. Hemingway", myself and our dear friends Shari and Doug cruised the Canal du Midi.



After our lunch complete with a most delectable dessert, we continued enroute to Olonzac where we will spend our near last week at Sainte Helene's apartment ... a wonderful retreat (I will share more about this little piece of heaven soon.)


This dessert I am going to recreate at home ... Tarte citron, strawberry Coulis and chocolate and the little bowl in the right hand corner is a palate cleanser ... Sorbet infused with Campari!