The Game of Belote

Belote is the name of a popular cards trick taking game, played in France. This people have chosen a pleasant area to pass their afternoon.

Botanical garden

Green & Red

I love Autumn photography and capturing the colours. The red leaves on a background of the stones and beautiful blue skies is a wonderful thing.

Croix Baragnon street

The Oysters Bar

There is a lovely relaxing atmosphere here! Oysters seem to be excellent. This terrace has a central location.

Roosevelt av

The Cinema

People have appointments in front of the entry of this cinema. Saturdays after midday it is the peak shopping period and that's good for the multiplex cinema too.

Roosevelt av

The Houseboat

It could be funny to live on a boat for a while but there shouldn't have much room. It could be better to start this experiment during the holidays. Someone knows how is life on a boat?

Montplaisir Bd

Face to Face

In the first part of the 19 century the middle-class in toulouse had invested only in "hotels particuliers", castles and in the land. This middle-class was not worried about the industrial revolution that was on the move.

Ninau street

Beautiful Residence

The private common parts of the "hotels particuliers" are accessible if you ask for the authorization to have a look these hidden richnesses.

Ninau street

Monsieur Coiffure

The neighbor of Mister hairstyle doesn't seem to have a lot of hairs on his head! He likes to observe people in the street!

Salin square

The Refectory

I was in the street when I took this photo. We can see the interior of a room. Nowadays, it is the Augustin museum but at the origine it was a cloister. It is the vaults of the refectory.

Alsace Loraine street

“fashion-victim”

If you are a “fashion-victim” or if you hate to survey the streets to do shopping, you should find your happiness at the exhibition center (Parc des expositions). The show of the Mode opens this weekend.

The Boletus Mushrooms

It is the season where it is common to find a several varieties of mushroom on the city markets.

Saint Cyprien

The Cast Iron Fountain

Everything change even in the France, the french ministry of health has decided to stop the reimbursement of 145 drugs considered to be not very effectice. It will be necessary to pay for health care. The social security of health is a system which takes water.

For the Rock'n'roll

There is in the town a variety of concert halls stage performances of classical, lyrical art, jazz, variety and electro acoustic music. I do not know which kind of music these two guys like to play, perhaps rock'n'roll!!

Capitole

"L'entracte"

Near the watertower of the Prairie des Filtres, the purified water from the Garonne was first channelled to the fountain in this place. This public drinking fountains distributed the water to the inhabitants of the district (in 1830).

Trinité place

The Sunset On The Church

its the beautiful Saint-Aubin church around which each Sunday the Saint-Aubin market takes place, this colourful area leads a rather village-like existence, much coveted by its inhabitants.

Lock the Door

You won't find steel, fiberglass or particleboard in these traditional doors. It probably has been built with solid wood, with mortise, tenon joinery and full-thickness raised panels.

Nazareth street

Like a Bird

I took this shot from the wheel. Do you remember! Yesterday I spoke about this roundabout. No, no, I see what you think, I didn't spend all the night on it. It was really fun! There is a nice vue of the city from the top. This is the historique place of the medicine school. In French: Université de médecine. There are always the first-year students.

The Giant Wheel

This is a roundabout where you first go when you are a child in your mother's arms and it's a treat for the whole family. Then when you are about fourteen you take your first sweetheart and its all part of your courting. Then it starts all over again when you are married and take your children and then of course the grandchildren.

Jules Guesde av

The Gardening

These is an original idea to decorate a garden or a balcony. The gardening is a pastime which relaxe.

Candies in the Square

Young people dressed in pink walk through the centre of the city. who looks prettier than them who are dressed like a candy? I found them very charming.

Wilson sq

The Dairy

The subcontractors live at the rhythm of changes at the head of Airbus. They learn today the departure of Christian Streiff, replaced immediately by Louis Gallois. He is the third Boss in six months. They know him well to have seen him at the direction of the Aerospatiale until 1995!! Airbus will cost a lot of money at the French gouvernment..

Caraman street

The Fine & The Blue Label

It is difficult to have a car without to pay every time. The government says that the pleasure has a price. But to have a car is often essential for the tasks of life.

The Waltz

The waltz never quite goes out of fashion.it is always just around the corner. It is sneaking, insidious, disarming, lovely.
The waltz, in fact, is magnificently improper,the art of tone turned lubricious. The name of the waltz is taken from the Italian ‘volver’ - to turn, or revolve.

Homeless

The life is not always pink in the cities. Toulouse does not escape the urban difficulties.

Pont des demoiselles

Miss Betty

What is about betty that can still haunt your dreams long after her flesh and blood rivals fade away. Before Marilyn and Madonna Betty wriggled her way into hearts worldwide with her unique mix of wide eyed innocence. We still can smell her parfum in this shop.

Perchepinte Street

The Cold Shower

It is a cold shower which was dealt, yesterday evening, by Christian Streiff to the "Airbusiens". For the first time in its history of the planes manufacturer, the new chairman spoke about reductions of numbers.

St Eienne

The Newspaper Kiosk

The delivery schedule of the giant plane A380 of Airbus will undergo a third delay “an average of a year”, that is to say a shift of the program of almost two years compared with the initial plan, pushing the airplane manufacturer to start a vast program of economies and industrial reorganization.

Grand Rond

Green & Black

I don't want to promote the little green bottle but I recognize that it gives me the opportunity for this new photo.

St Etienne

The Rowing

I never understood why in our society there are always two parties. People who work and people who neverwork. Curiously, people who don't work have not necessarily a bad life when they can turn situation to their advantage.

The Taxis

This morning the activity of the taxis in the downtown were quiet . It's begins later on Sunday morning.

Wilson sq