Toulouse is the capital of the Occitanie region of France, a vast geographical area of the southwest that borders Spain and the Mediterranean Sea plus the French regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. The city, called Tolosa, was known to the Romans, but there is evidence that it has been inhabited at least since…
Month: January 2024
Toulouse
We trained it to Toulouse yesterday for a few days, mainly to tour the Airbus factory on Saturday (David is a major aviation geek). Our high-end hotel allowed check-in before official check-in time—-for a €35 (around CA $55) fee. We have never experienced this before, and it really irritated me. It just felt greedy, since…
Re-orienting
The drama of lost luggage ended happily Friday when we returned to Marseille airport and successfully collected our bags that arrived on the evening flight from Brussels the night prior. I never want to look at the accidental thong underwear again. David and I were last in Nîmes in January, 2023. The first winter that…
Tempting Fate
All of my nurse friends will recoil in horror when I say this, but on the plane from Brussels to Marseille yesterday, I turned to David and said, “In twenty-five years of air travel, the airlines have only once lost our luggage!” As the words escaped my mouth, I instantly regretted it. Nurses have a…
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