Toulouse, la ville rose

Position: [ 43°37N, 1°27E ]

Toulouse is a city that I thouroughly enjoy.

Place du Capitole

It is nicknamed la Ville Rose (the pink city) because it was built out of regional bricks, which had pink shades.

Even today, there is a city law that requests any new house to have a roof built using the traditional pink coloured tiles. This way the pink city remains pink from the sky.

Rue du Taur and the Saint-Sernin basilica

This time, when a friend of mine invited me to a party at her home it was hard to resist. So there I went. I took a flight in on a Saturday afternoon to fly back to Paris the next day.

Of course I could not go to the regional capital of the Sud-Ouest without getting a set of the local specialty : the Foie Gras. Here goes my stock.

3 Foies Gras

Talking about food, one of Toulouse’s culinar stapple of fame : the Saucisse de Toulouse (Toulouse Saussage) is often unfairly forgotten.

I, for one, always forget to mention it when talking about Toulouse and France’s South-East specialties.
But as usual, whenever I go back there (and there is a barbecue nearby), here I go: Saussage!!!

And in case you wonder: yes, it’s possible to eat cold saussage for breakfast after a party…