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On Place du Capitole in Toulouse last week there was a salon devoted to other forms of transportation. Over the course of a few days buses, subways, trams, bicycles, walking were all profiled as ways to “deplacer”.
Last Saturday I went to the salon and it was all about bicycles. There were folding bicycles, electric [...]

Wordpress can has problems. Something happened to my blog over the weekend. I don’t know what and it did not display any content. I changed the theme to the default theme and now it works. Give me a few days to get it all back together. I thought it was strange when my Google Analytics [...]

Oops, I forgot to publish this post, sorry Bob. It was part of my series on my own blog readers. Now that he is in France for the summer, I know he is writing in his blog. Check it out. We were out of town when he was in Toulouse so we didn’t get the [...]

This is a little inside joke. I kept saying “stage” when referring to this training. Some of them said their previous English teachers told them you can’t say “stage” in English and you have to say training or continuing education. While I agree, I don’t think this weeklong intensive training course fits the description of [...]

Here is a link to the lodge where we stayed.
http://www.lebataillet.info/
It is owned by the DGAC, Direction Général d’Aviation Civile, the French Civil Aviation Authority. It is quite impressive. In the lower left part of the aerial photo you can see the pool. It was a big pool. Monday and Tuesday were not the best days, [...]

Since we are in the birthday wishing mode, we might as well wish Prince a Happy Birthday. He turned 50 on June 7th. We were watching the French news and they were doing a profile of him. I had lost track of whether or not he was still a symbol or back to the name [...]