FranciaOccitaniaToulousePlace du Capitole43°36’10” N 1°26’26” E
1 giugno 2015, Francia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Guided tour of the city center. The big church dates from the 12th century.
FranciaOccitaniaToulouseLes Minimes43°36’36” N 1°25’56” E 2 giugno 2015, Francia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
The school is on the site of an old military barracks. New buildings surround the old parade square; a nice park separates it from our hotel.
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In the Toulouse region the second language is Occitan, a mostly dying language that sounds a lot like Spanish. All of the historical street names have both. Sometimes the names like similar and sometime not at all.
FranciaOccitaniaGrisolles43°50’14” N 1°18’56” E 2 giugno 2015, Francia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Wine tasting at a nice little place outside of the city.
FranciaOccitaniaToulouseLes Minimes43°36’39” N 1°25’53” E
3 giugno 2015, Francia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Nothing exciting today, just class- "international market risk and the threat to portfolio valuation." I had to present on the collapse of NatWest Markets back in 2000.
FranciaOccitaniaToulouseLes Minimes43°36’39” N 1°25’53” E
4 giugno 2015, Francia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Just walking to class after lunch. It's so nice and green here.
FranciaOccitaniaToulouseLes MinimesCanal du Midi43°36’40” N 1°26’17” E
FranciaOccitaniaBeauzelle43°39’34” N 1°21’34” E 5 giugno 2015, Francia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Nice museum, but I suspect it was just a holding area for us while our passports were checked against a database. We had to turn them in for the duration of the museum visit before being givenLeggi altro
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Me and my roommate Dan. He's a turbine engineer at Honeywell so he might even have been more interested in this stuff than me. Many of his company's products are in the A380 that we're going to see.
Tell Airbus that the entertainment systems on their USAirways/American A330s suck. The user interface is abysmal, the screen rarely registers a touch, and it's not fair that ours didn't work but the guys' across the aisle did. Wah, first world problems. Pal
FranciaOccitaniaBlagnacToulouse-Blagnac Airport43°37’38” N 1°21’16” E 5 giugno 2015, Francia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Final assembly and testing center for the A380. No pictures allowed and access was tightly controlled. Pretty amazing to see.
FranciaOccitaniaCarcassonneCarcassonne Railway Station43°13’1” N 2°21’7” E 6 giugno 2015, Francia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
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This guy was eye level with me while coming up in the canal lock on the boat.
FranciaOccitaniaCarcassonneCité de Carcassonne43°12’22” N 2°21’51” E
6 giugno 2015, Francia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
The immense castle & town of Carcassonne. A little touristy but the castle and town inside the old city walls were cool. Huge- our guide said the city walls were 5 km long with over 50 towers.
