Madelyn's Blog

I have arrived in Toulouse, France’s 4th largest city. I had a little trouble finding Amadeo at the train station, but all is well now. I met Amadeo’s friend, Laura, and we walked around Toulouse and had ice cream before dinner. The city is huge, and every time I turn a corner there is another giant, historic building. The town halls is enormous, and there’s a great old cathedral too. There’s a river along one side of the city, and Amadeo told me that during the plague the people of Toulouse segregated the sick to one side of the river and then destroyed the only bridge to protect the healthy. It’s hard to imagine living in a time like that, where half your town is deathly ill. It makes you wonder what lengths you would go to in order to protect yourself or your family.

On a brighter note, I was starving after the walking tour of Toulouse, so we ate dinner at a fantastic Italian restaurant. I had tortellini with tomato cream sauce, ham and mushrooms. Amadeo’s appetizer was hot goat cheese on toast with honey…DELICIOUS. I made a note of it in my phone so I won’t forget to try to make it when I get back home. I have quite the list of French foods, actually, to try to replicate at home. Good thing I have such a wonderful guinea pig, I mean boyfriend, to try them out on.

I am off to bed, can’t believe I’ll be home in 6 days!