The pink wheel

Don't park your bike where it will obstruct pedestrian or motor vehicle travel. But if your bike is illegally parked or left in a place where it is obstructing traffic or creating a hazard, at Toulouse it will never subject to being impounded by the police like cars.

Rempart street

Old motor bike

Unfortunately this Moto is not for sell or exhange. It is a photo just for the fun, the excitement and the smell of nostalgia. Perhaps you might want to ride the old motorbike you always dreamt of? When I took this photo the rider was in an hurry to drink a "Pastis" with his friends.

A Romanesque Church


A place of plenitude, Saint Sernin is forever revealing its intrinsic beauty enhanced by constant restoration work.

Saint Sernin

UFO

Carmes market is a covered “farmers’’ markets in downtown Toulouse. It is open in the mornings only, Tuesday - Sunday. It is on the ground floor of a multi-level parking.

The City Theater or TNT

It is the main entry. We are inside. The repertoire of the TNT ranges from classical to contemporary plays and some of its shows go on national tour.

Pierre-Baudis street

We change our clocks

Summer Time begins this night in the European Union. It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. All time zones change at the same moment in the EU.

See more information about elsewhere in the world.

Alsace Lorraine street

Almond Tree

A wonderfull smell flowers! Don't lose any time, it is quite handsome and disappears so quickly!

The masks

In this fountain, water pours into an eignt sided basin made of Saint Béat marbre through the mouths of four grotesque masks.

Saint Etienne Fountain

The corridor

Périgord library - It was built in 1935 by Jean Montariol. the library counts approximately 100 000 books from 16 th to 18 th century and remarkable collections. The consultation of the documents is done only in the library.

The plastic lawn.

Usually, sports grounds have an odour of grass. Nowadays plastic carpet is more and more used. In my opignon it is quite spacial! We can't smell the authentic odour of the grass for example? Maybe one day someone will create a spécific odeur for the plastic grass!

Ramonville

Don't take your bath here!!

It was yesterday afternoon. I was on the other side of the bank of the canal when I saw this man. He was in the water and he was trying to climb the slope toward the road. It is not usual to see this especially in this season.

He had just fallen into water with his bicycle by accident. Fortunately he wasn't injured!

The Spanish influence at Toulouse

I took this photo yesterday afternoon in a cafe on Victor Hugo square when a friend told me: "Choose to do that you truly enjoy. There is nothing worse than wasting your life away in a job that you hate."

wall cartoon - Victor Hugo place

Photographers & Job protests

Thousands of people have marched through the city to protest a recently passed law making it easier to hire and fire young workers. The law wants to reduce the high level of youth unemployment however opponents fear it will promote greater job insecurity.

Strasbourg Bd

At nightfall, the city gets dressed up

We are in front of the concert hall "Hall aux grains" under the lighting of the Place Dupuy. All this people are waiting the classic concerto of Berlioz with "Le carnaval Romain" and Rimski Korsakov with "Sheherazade". Tonight the conductor is Tugan Sokhiev.

Anti-CPE blockade

At the University of Social Sciences of Toulouse 1, students voted in favour of the blocking of the establishment this morning. A confrontation took place this evening between students and Police on the place of the Capitole .

The Capitole this afternoon.

Lover's Cocktail recipe

Lovers know much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise...?

Capitole Place - The Roof.

Profoundly difficult

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choise. I cannot buy a suitcase without being bombarded by a plethora of choices. It used to be small, medium or large. Now, I have so many choices in just the suitcase aisle that I am paralyzed by it...(I am joking..)

Antique dealer of Jules Guesde avenue

Early in the morning

Le Canal du Midi is classified henceforth to the world heritage of the UNESCO. Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609-1680), baron de Bonrepos, undertake in 1662 the survey of the construction of the channel of the two seas, joining the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

Heavy crowd

It is a heavy crowd of pedestrians each saturday afternoon that you'll find in Toulouse's streets. From the Place Esquirol you are walking in the medieval Grande Rue, it is a pedestrian area with shops selling the latest fashion or gadgets, a paradise for shoppers.

Esquirol place

Riding in Style

For many people, riding in a chauffeured luxury sedan or stretch limousine is not a rare luxury experience, but rather a functional necessity. At Toulouse there is only one limo. This one is used in a Corporate Transportation that may assisting people for weddings, prom, birthdays, anniversaries, bachelorette and bachelor parties, and any other special occassions.

Jules Guesde avenue

Happy Birthday

Happy first birthday Eric to your Paris Daily Photo. Please go visit him and wish him happy blog birthday!

Immensity

This evening people were caught up in a massive traffic jam on the motorway around the city.

The cause is evident workers go back home. This traffic jam is expect in normal time. Even if you decid to take the backroads it could be the same problem. The city grows up quickly with aeronotic industry: Airbus.

Undertaking a new venture

Gardens are not just the setting for houses. There are the framework for a life, the space for self-expression and a way of reconnecting with the world beyond an artificial town. Whether big, small or ill-favoured, your green space is your chance to display your skill and artistic approach to the world around you.

Jardin des plantes

Make what you are really enjoy

If you both love growing, preparing and eating good food it seemed like you could have a better lifestyle while making what you are really enjoy. This is a nice restaurant where you can also take the time for relaxation.

Place Saint Georges

Main Courtyard

If you have luck to be able to enter in a particular hostel, behind the the monumental portal you will arrive, by a long paved entry, to a court where usually is a dog house containing a statue.

Toulouse' Modern and Contemporary Art

This is a part of the theatre curtain by Picasso, installed on the 14th July 1936, ‘La Dépouille du Minotaure en costume d’arlequin’ is its most monumental work of the Abattoirs museum.

Late in the night

I've just had the time to take this photo last night when I saw this angel, over there, flying fast in the dark ..

Grand Gond Fountain

First spring flower

A delicate odour is borne on the morning breeze. The odour of leaves, and of grass. Even in the city appears the odors and the noises of spring .

Medical Library

The Library of Medicine on the old university in the downtown (there are many areas all around Toulouse for medicine studies), is the older's largest medical library of the city. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.

Pruning is a horticultural practice

Pruning is a horticultural practice that alters the form and growth of a plant. Based on aesthetics and science, pruning can also be considered preventive maintenance. Many problems may be prevented by pruning correctly during formative years for a tree or shrub. On the photo it is not a question of pruning!! I don't like to see this..

Jardin des plantes

Six Sisters Bookshop

"Aux Six soeurs Librairie" is a local independent bookstore. As you can see, it is also sell items related to books such as newpapers and travel maps. Nowadays bookstores are owned by large chains. Online stores offer many times more titles and their use is increasingly common. Bookseller is also a work that follow incredible changes..

Place Saint Etienne