Conmmunication

Technology is a wonderful thing. I know, because I've been without it for the past week. Our telephone, internet and television will be connected this week, we hope. Time in France is relative and we'll see if our service is up and running in the time they promised, or if it will be fashionably late, like most Toulousians. Right now we are sitting in the hotel lobby where we stayed last Sunday, using their internet.

I have so many new things to tell everyone. I promise that in the future, these posts will be shorter with more pictures and less words. We've arrived safe and sound in TOULOUSE and I spent the week learning how to get around this new city of ours. Public transportation is great. I have successfully navigated the subway and the public buses all around the city.

They do like their dogs here. Lady can go just about everywhere with me. She rode the metro into the city centre with me and sat at my feet while I enjoyed my cafe at the bistro.

Yesterday we went car shopping. Larry wants to drive a Peugeot, a 207 style. We will have the relocation person work on securing a lease on one for us this week. In the mean time he is driving a European version of a minivan - a Citroen. It's a little bigger than the size of a Rav4 and it's too big for these streets.

This weekend TOULOUSE is hosting its annual music festival. We went out for dinner Friday night and as we were walking around the centre, we heard a drum corps. They paraded everyone towards the centre square where they had set up a acrobatics presentation. The pictures are from this. Today we are joining Larry's coworkers for more of this festival.





We are anxiously awaiting our air shipment this week. I will have a few more of my own comforts to make the flat our home. It's very comfortable. In another post I will describe it more in detail.

I will post again when our flat has internet, hopefully later this week. Until then, au revoir.