Day 1: Gradignan |
Auvillar |
Auvillar |
Auvillar |
Auvillar |
Auvillar |
Auvillar |
Auvillar - La tour de l'horloge |
Auvillar - Bric-à-brac in the town hall's courtyard |
Auvillar - Eglise St Pierre |
Auvillar - Eglise St Pierre |
Valence d'Agen |
Lauzerte |
Lauzerte |
Day 2 - early morning walk near Lauzerte |
Lauzerte |
Lauzerte |
Lauzerte |
Lauzerte - Eglise St Barthélemy |
In Moissac Abbey Cloister |
The entrance to Moissac Abbey |
Moissac Abbey |
Moissac - 30s-styled "kiosque de l'uvarium" |
Moissac - 30s-styled "kiosque de l'uvarium" |
Moissac's markethall |
Moissac Abbey - detail |
Moissac Abbey - detail |
Moissac Abbey - detail |
Moissac Abbey - detail |
Have you ever seen an navigable aqueduct ? This one is near Moissac and was built in 1867. |
Montauban |
Montauban |
Day 3: Good morning...go away from the tent, silly hens ! |
Toulouse - luxury shop window |
Toulouse - Place de la Trinité |
Toulouse - Eglise Notre-Dame-du-Taur |
Toulouse - Eglise St-Sernin |
Toulouse - Eglise St-Sernin |
Toulouse - Eglise St-Sernin, weird way to ask for offerings |
Toulouse - Eglise St-Sernin, Buddha-looking Jesus |
Toulouse - Eglise St-Sernin, punishment |
Toulouse - stunning view from the hotel room... |
Toulouse - Les Jacobins cloister |
Toulouse - Les Jacobins church |
Toulouse - believe it or not... |
Nougaro's answer |
The Work of Art itself |
Toulouse - Place St Scarbes |
Day 4: Early morning discovery of the unusual system to close the window |
Toulouse - possibly the most appetising cakes I've ever seen |
Musée des Augustins - Pietà with St John and Mary Magdalene (early 16th c., detail) |
Musée des Augustins - St Michael beating down the Dragon (late 15th c., detail) |
Musée des Augustins - Keystone decorated with St Francis of Assisi (14th c.) |
Musée des Augustins - Japanese-looking nun's head (14th c.) |
Musée des Augustins - Sibyl by Jean Bauduy (1523) |
Musée des Augustins - Prophet by Jean Bauduy (1523) |
Musée des Augustins - Leo and Aries signs (ca. 1120?) |
Musée des Augustins - museum overdose / kitsch |
Musée des Augustins |
Toulouse - my new favourite bar (called "Bacchus"...) |
Toulouse - my new favourite bar (2011, detail) |
Toulouse - Nostalgia kicking in |
Carcassonne |
Carcassonne |
Carcassonne by night |
Day 5: Carcassonne by day |
Carcassonne |
Fontfroide Abbey |
Day 6: early morning walk, exploring the campsite |
Further exploration |
Morning walk to the beach |
First mediterranean sunrise in years |
Gruissan-Plage, with its famous Plage des Chalets where Beineix's film Betty Blue was shot |
Narbonne |
Narbonne - Indeed, this shop does sell everything to dress your dog in a very chic way |
Narbonne |
Narbonne |
Day 7: Albi Cathedral - Saint Cecilia |
Albi Cathedral - the vault |
Albi Cathedral |
Albi |
Cordes |
Cordes |
Cordes |
Cordes |
C'est là ce qui fait l'enchantement de Cordes; tout y est beau, même le regret (Albert Camus) |
Day 8: Misty morning near Cordes-sur-Ciel |