Photos from Toulouse, France

My first visit to Toulouse

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I went to Toulouse to visit Fabien, a friend from my first year at Berkeley. We spent a few days looking around Toulouse and other smaller cities nearby.

Downtown Toulouse

A street in Toulouse. It's known as the Pink City because of the color of a lot of its buildings.
Some official-looking building downtown.
The Garonne River runs right through the city.
Believe it or not, this is a dance club.

City Hall is an enormous building.
Here's another angle of it.
Inside it's super ornate with tons of paintings lining the walls (and ceilings!)
The paintings were huge too. Around when I took this picture, a drunk guy walked up to us and explained his interpretation of ALL the paintings.

Arches in a cathedral downtown.
A faded inscription on the wall of the cathedral. I took the picture so I could figure out what it says, but I haven't succeeded.
Sunlight shining into another little cathedral. I really like this picture, but I can't decide if I prefer the original or this color-balanced one.
A huge mirrored ball that looked like it was about to roll out of this building. Don't ask, I have no idea. You can see Fabien and me in the reflection.

Auch, a city near where Fabien is from


Arches in a huge cathedral downtown	One of Auch's claims to fame is that it has a street composed entirely of stairs. It would be annoying to live there.	There is actually a city near Auch called Condom.

Stairs up to a big monument.	At the top of the stairs, there's this square that has the Bible story of Noah inscribed in the ground. It's a memorial put up after a big flood there.	At the same spot, they have a statue of Dartagnan, one of the Three Musketeers, who's from Auch. I did my best impression of him.

Small towns in the vicinity of Sabaillan


Fabien is from a rural area with rolling hills.	Fabien contemplating a cathedral. Even the tiniest French towns have these huge cathedrals.	Choir chairs inside the cathedral.

This is the entrance to a maquis, which is a secret meeting site of the French resistance in WWII.	The Nazis discovered this site, surrounded it, and killed almost everyone there. Here's a car the exploded during the assault. It had been filled with stolen explosives.	Graves of the resistance members who died in the attack.	The remains of the farmhouse where the resistance members met, with the graves in the background.

We had a little party at Fabien's house.	Fabien's friend opens a bottle of champagne with a knife. He scored the glass...	...then flicked the knife and popped the entire top of the bottle off. Pretty cool.


A street in Toulouse. It's known as the Pink City because of the color of a lot of its buildings.	Some official-looking building downtown.	The Garonne River runs right through the city.	Believe it or not, this is a dance club.

City Hall is an enormous building.	Here's another angle of it.	Inside it's super ornate with tons of paintings lining the walls (and ceilings!)	The paintings were huge too. Around when I took this picture, a drunk guy walked up to us and explained his interpretation of ALL the paintings.

Arches in a cathedral downtown.	A faded inscription on the wall of the cathedral. I took the picture so I could figure out what it says, but I haven't succeeded.	Sunlight shining into another little cathedral. I really like this picture, but I can't decide if I prefer the original or this color-balanced one.	A huge mirrored ball that looked like it was about to roll out of this building. Don't ask, I have no idea. You can see Fabien and me in the reflection.