Oct 16 Toulouse?
As we packed up to leave our gite (weekly rentals France, gite.com ), I received an email from easy jet. My flight from Toulouse to Rome had been cancelled because of the French strike. Transportation was completely disrupted. We spent an hour chasing alternatives, none of which resolved my problem of traveling from France to Italy. We decided to try to book a train from the Toulouse station.
Balika and I stood in line for more than an hour to find out that we were in the France-only line and the other line was 2x as long and many of the trains had been canceled. So we went to my hotel to use the Internet to look into the options.
Meanwhile Vicky and Bobby, who would be sharing the next gite with B & S, called and they didn't know it they could get out of Paris due to the strike. We finally found a flight from Barcelona to Rome on the 18th. So, after letting the kids jump on the hotel bed, to my great relief, I was able to cancel the next two nights at the Ours Blanc (polar bear) and i continued with the family to Couliou, on the coast at the Spanish border. Toulouse seemed big, noisy, and scary and it has 120,000 college students who seemed to all be trying to get on trains. I was relieved to leave it.
I was asleep in the third bed in Eilidh and Bella's room by 10:00 when Sven left to get Bobby, Vicky, and their two daughters at a nearby train station.
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