Last day in Toulouse

Today was our last day in Toulouse. We had a leisurely morning wandering around. There was a big market in front of Place du Capitole. In the late afternoon we drove to a hotel next to the airport. It is a very modern and luxurious hotel, so now we are relaxing after a huge dinner. Tomorrow we fly back to D.C.

Basilique St. Sernin
The first church was built on this site in the 5th century, then replaced with the larger church beginning in 1096. They were unable to afford stone, so the lower part of the church is stone and the upper part is brick.
After visiting Saint Sernin, we ate lunch at a cafe across the street, admired the cathedral while we enjoyed lunch and read up on Saint Saturnin, who the cathedral is named after.

Our hotel room in downtown Toulouse. The hotel was a block away from Place du Capitole. We were in the center of everything. Great walking! Interesting stores.

View from the hotel - a street in Toulouse, it was like a tiny less crowded Paris.

Point Neuf
There were these really amazing street performers playing jazz in the town center. They kept moving around so we got to hear them a couple of different places.
Everywhere has McDonalds! The Toulouse one looked so fancy, the bread looked so good and the meat looked like actual meat!
They have Subway too. Notice how no one is eating there....and the dude with the baguette.
Town Center pre-market.
Flea market in the town center, which had lots of junk and books and African stuff. For some reason the French are really into old WWE wrestlers like Batista and the Undertaker (THE BEST!) as well as Bob Marley. Not what USA should be known for, but it could be worse. I got Danny and Cheryl a really snazzy gift here! They were selling a lot of Algerian stuff for the soccer game today, too bad USA dominated them.
They have the doofy-est looking cars here! At least I think so. They all look like Matrix's or Prius's, very bubbly and girly. They have funny names too, like Picasso and Punto and Twingo or my personal favorite, Panda.
France has the most non-threatening police officers ever. This guy was smoking a cigarette! They have the funny sirens too like in the movies, not scary at all. Plus they're mostly young guys and in tiny Prius like cars. Not very intimidating.
My lunch, which we had outside the St. Sernin Basillica. It's duck if you cannot tell. I have found that duck is really just expensive dark meat, so you may as well get subpar chicken. Just my thoughts.
Fancy appetizer of scallops, which we got from the hotel Raddison we are at now, near the airport. It's a beautiful hotel, very fancy, and the first place we've been to that has a shower with doors! Everywhere else had no doors or shower curtains, it was very weird. I have learned that overall, the French are extremely fancy, sometimes too much for their own good. Apparently, it's all about the presentation, as you can see from the scallops and the classy McDonalds.

Dani at dinner. Today was all about food and relaxing.
Courtyard of Radisson Hotel. View from our dinner table. There is a mini-vineyard in the courtyard.