So, I haven't got into this blogging business like I thought I would but I'm going to soldier on with it! I've had a lovely holiday so far and frankly the weather is far too nice outside to sit inside wittering away on here!
So the next leg of my hols began in Toulouse, it all went swimmingly...apart from the fact that the French air traffic control decided to strike just as we were about to leave and we ending up the first flight that didn't make it back to England. This was the first time I'd been abroad with only my friends, and frankly we panicked! It was so stressful! It was about midnight in France and the weather was horrible and we were all plagued by visions of us having to sleep on the street because we wouldn't be able to find a hotel by ourselves and already started thinking about getting the TGV to Paris to get the Eurostar home. Thankfully, it didn't come to that! Easyjet were amazing, got us on a flight the next day and room in a verrrry swanky hotel with breakfast and lunch all sorted for us! Shame we only got about 4 hours in the hotel and had to get up at 5 but it was all fun times anyway! It was all good really and a good chance to figure out what to do by ourselves without actually getting stuck anywhere to awful or anything! One thing that did ruin it however was, while we were all in the very stressed stage and Claire and I managed to get separated from Adele and Katy on the way to the booking desk. Claire and I decided to get in the queue and wait for them and luckily Adele and Katy found us after not too long, and slipping into the queue with us. The guy behind us decided to be an idiot and said something like " I think you'll find that's the back of the queue" (we were all about ready to cry at this point and did not want to end up on different flights or having to get taxis or hotels by ourselves) thankfully Claire saved us by saying we were travelling together and did he really want to split up four girls in a foreign country. I hope his wife who was stood next to him and didn't say anything was ashamed. What a fool. Thankfully the rest of the people on the flight thought so too and were all lovely and equally pissed off as us as the idiot continued to push his way to the front of the queue for everything. *headdesk*
ANYWAY. It didn't ruin our brilliant holiday! We had some great times and many hugely funny moments! I got photo-bombed on the first day, had many funny encounters with random French people and other tourists and to top it all off, Claire fell on her arse in the middle of the Capitol (Sorry Claire, it was funny though). Toulouse is a brilliant city. On the first night we arrived it seemed awfully quiet, which we eventually realised was down to the fact that it was raining and the Toulousan's (NOT Toulousians!) just don't do rain! Luckily it didn't rain again until the day we were meant to leave and was actually scorching the rest of the time! We did practically EVERY touristy thing available and visited every single market in the city! So many good breakfasts were had from the markets, I'm still craving the sweet goodness of a chocolatine or similar. It's just not the same in England. I keep popping to the French quarter of South Ken just to feel a bit French again!
Here are some photos! We took a heck of a lot!
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