#Travel Toulouse France

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Travel Guide Toulouse France

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La Grave & Pont St Pierre, Toulouse by sir20

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TOULOUSE , FRANCE 🌸

Welcome to the city of France named " La ville rose " due to the colour of the buildings which sometimes is Pink !

The south of france vibes

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Facade

Emmanuel Passeleu

France

The "Facade" series that I present to you here highlights facades in the southwest of France between the prestigious seaside resorts of Cap-Ferret and La Grande Motte, passing through Bordeaux and Toulouse, which allow buildings that can be crosses every day to be put forward by a particularity, a difference.

Neutral Density Photography Awards 2023

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T O U L O U S E - april 2022

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Toulouse

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GUIDE COMPLET DES ATTRACTIONS ET ACTIVITÉS À NARBONNE PLAGE

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Notre Dame de la Daurade - Toulouse, France

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Toulouse, France

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Autumn in Toulouse, France (oct. 2022)

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A brief stop in Toulouse

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Talking about the conflict between the periphery and the centre in France, I am reminded of this thing:

This screenshot is what you see when you install the app of SNCF, the French national railroads. It's not a particularly good app, but it starts with a little animation that shows you this rail journey.Looks neat, doesn't it?

Except think about it for a second. This is completely bonkers. The route is Nantes to Montpellier (based on looking at OpenRailwayMap), presumably Montpellier Sud de France station (along the high speed line).

As you can see, you travel north-east to Paris, change trains there, then travel south-east to the high speed wye at Avignon, before going back west to Montpellier. Compared to going straight, this is a several hundred kilometre detour.

If you look it up on SNCF's website, or indeed this app, this is a journey that takes about seven hours. The default routing, at seven hours and three minutes, spits you out in Paris Montparnasse station. You then have to get on a metro to Châtelet, and change there for a metro to Paris Gare de Lyon station, where you have to wait for an hour.

The route the site recommends me with the fewest changes asks me to change in Marne-la-Vallée - Chessy, where I have to wait for one hour and sixteen minutes. That's probably not too bad, because that puts me literally in the middle of Disneyland. Still, though: The only way is via Paris.

This is not because SNCF wants me to buy Mickey Mouse ears, of course, but rather because of the way the rail network in France is laid out, and that ultimately reflects the way how the government thinks about France as a whole. I made a more international post about this a couple of months ago. But the basic gist is: Ever since railways in France were a thing, the government has seen it as their job to connect places with Paris. The rail lines, both the historic classic ones and the modern high speed ones that you will travel on for most of this journey, are designed to bring you from Nantes to Paris, or from Paris to Montpellier.

This, like all rail lines, isn't an accident but a choice. The French rail network still reflects the plans (later much extended) of Baptiste Alexis Victor Legrand, France's general director of bridges and roads from 1834, along many other roles. It was his plan, known as the "Legrand star", in 1842, which started that, and it was a lot of governments since who continued this policy.

Bringing you from Nantes to Montpellier is possible, they even advertise it in their app. There are a number of connecting railway lines to make it easier, which go via Disneyland and Massey, both in the outskirts of the Paris region. But ultimately, Nantes-Montpellier is a nice bonus, nothing more.

This has all sorts of fun results. Yes, you can have the headquarter for your company in Toulouse, like Airbus does, if you really want to. But there's really only one city in France that's allowed to have great connections to everywhere else, and that's Paris. That makes the city ever more useful as a place to live or do business, and the fact that the government is close by helps as well.

And this whole thing is so deeply engrained in that country's institutions that the national railway uses one of the worst examples of this in their freaking advertisement for their app. I just think that's interesting.

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JAPANESE GARDEN 🌸

Your sign to visit the city of Toulouse in France . There you will find à japanese garden in the center of the city , fill with peace and harmony

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T O U L O U S E - april 2022

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Toulouse facades