It is a college town, so the cost of food is lower. We took full advantage of this fact and enjoyed burgers, Lebanese platters, Truffle ravioli, Tiramisu (tier-ah-me-soo), good coffee, cake and custard dessert.
In Toulouse, we had a city tour from a very excited woman named Mary-Anne France. She was a French tour guide whose last name was actually France!
"Can I get home from here?" **
This is not a game I ever willingly participate in; however, I have discovered I am an excellent player. How the game works is that something happens to my phone, whether it mysteriously dies too fast, or I lose service, and then I have to figure out how to get home without having access to any internet or travel apps. You also can't look at any pictures of maps you may have taken because your phone isn’t working. Bonus points if it happens in a country where you don’t know the language. IF it sounds hard, that is because it is, and over the span of my entire trip abroad, it happened three times! Tthe second time was over break while I was in Lyon. My phone mysteriously died way too fast for an iPhone that was less than a year old (I still use that phone and I still have no idea what happened...). It died right after I got to the first of three stops I had planned, and nowwhere could I find a store that sold a charger. I ended up sitting in a cafe with the last 15% of my battery and wrote down the routes and all my connecting train and bus schedules on the back of an envelope I found. Yes, I did get home on time and yes, my family thought I had died or disappeared.
