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Post by Jazz on Apr 22, 2010 15:18:02 GMT
Once again, I began the day with your thread and found I'd missed the last half. The window of the Hotel de Vieux Raisin is beautiful and it's intriguing that each window is different. I don't think I have ever seen a building with that feature. (It would be considered too expensive and time consuming to do, I think.) You are fortunate to be within a 5 minute walk of Toulouse proper. This is a wonderful introduction to your city, bjd. Lagatta, I remember 'Imec et famille en Toulouse', and bjd was his guide for much of it. You are right, there is so much more of France that I need to experience. Time for me to go to Toulouse and buy the stuffed camel!
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Post by bjd on Apr 22, 2010 16:18:18 GMT
Just let me know when you are coming, Jazz. I give tours.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2010 16:55:38 GMT
Thanks for all of this, Bjd, & apologies for missing the earlier comment saying that you are in Toulouse. To post a youtube video: Copy the url & paste it in a message box here. Highlight it, then click on the youtube button above the message box. For an explanation of all the buttons, please click here --> Explanation of message buttons. That is in the Port Authority section of AnyPort -- the top heading on the horizontal menu and the very first item on the Home page.
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Post by imec on Apr 22, 2010 17:24:42 GMT
Oh bjd! This brings back such wonderful memories of our meeting last summer! Great pics!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2010 23:50:52 GMT
deyana, several French cities have underground/métro/subway systems. Paris of course, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Toulouse and Rennes. And some other French cities (for me, Strasbourg comes to mind) have tram/streetcar systems. As was the case here (I'm familiar with Montréal, Québec City and Ottawa), almost all the tram systems were shut down after the Second World War, but in recent years this has been reversed with the opening of new modern systems. Remember that imec et famille took some very good shots of Toulouse during their French tour. Lagatta, yes, I do remember imec's excellent shots of the city. It now makes me want to see it. Perhaps bjd can arrange a tour for a whole bunch of us North Americans in one go.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 24, 2010 19:21:12 GMT
Well, perhaps, but the last thing I'd be interested in is a group tour, in particular of France or any French-speaking country. Like, why?
A good friend of mine from Toulouse died recently. I wish I'd have been able to take a tour of the town with him. I did show him around Perugia though...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2010 19:58:02 GMT
Provincial cities do not require a 'tour' -- their delights are scattered and available to any intrepid wanderer.
I can, in limited circumstances, understand the need/desire for an organized tour in a capital city with extremely limited time. Our modern world of half-day airline transits has made this relatively common.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2010 20:24:33 GMT
I think Bjd was simply being gracious to Jazz.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 24, 2010 22:39:45 GMT
There is a very limited kind of tour called a "visite" in French, centred on some historical or artistic aspect of a museum, a district or any manner of thing. Le Monde always had a little column "Paris en visites"; probably it still does but I rarely read the print version any more. When I was in Lyon, a Lyonnais friend did take the time to show me aspects of the history, of past centuries or past decades, that I might not have seen otherwise. (Yes, this did include the courtyard where Klaus Barbie tortured people). But a lot of more pleasant facets as well. And, given this friend's propensities, it finished with a pub crawl...
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Post by lola on May 8, 2010 14:34:32 GMT
Beautiful, bjd.
I never realized they'd curved streets to cut the wind. Too intelligent! Too bad Chicago didn't think of that before they laid themselves out on a geometric east-west grid.
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Post by lagatta on May 14, 2010 20:03:03 GMT
There are many such problems arising from overly slavish use of grid city plans. They are also a problem in very hilly cities.
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