After a relaxed start we went into the centre of Toulouse and did a little more exploring before meeting up with Paul and Louisa at the Capitol. We went to the same restaurant as yesterday, the Bistro de la Daurade in the Rue Jean Suau. We had a real French lunch, all two and a half hours of it, and the food was excellent again. The conversation flowed and it was great to catch up with all of their news – it was hard to believe that it was over a year since we saw them last.
We all visited the church of Saint Sernin, this time there wasn't a service in progress, and then went on to the Toulouse Rugby shop. There was a tremendous range of clothes and other gifts – ten times that of Bath Rugby. And then we discovered that we were in the men's shop – there was a separate, admittedly smaller, shop for women! This is a rugby-mad city and the support for the club is huge as shown by the nearly full-house (perhaps 30,000?) at yesterday's match.
We said farewell to Paul and Louisa and I am sure that we will get together soon after we return to England.
Photos: We came across this shop in the morning – it sold all sorts of British food, including Marmite and we were running very low. Unfortunately the shop was closed on Mondays; The tower of St. Sernin's church.
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