A lovely day in Toulouse waiting for our first guests and fellow pilgrims, pelegin, in French, pronunciation impossible.
Toulouse is a beautiful city. The monument to the world wars in the background.
The Garonne River heading off to the sea near to Bordeaux. We will not be travelling down this river, but it is very beautiful.
And so our fellow pilgrims arrive. Gunilla and Sven arrived spot on time and spend the night on Lellebelle.
We need to discuss the bathroom issue! This port, fantastic in every way, except they lock the bathrooms from 6 pm to 9 am, no problem according to Madame who runs the place, there is a public toilet about 600 m down the road. And this is an amazing contraption. You press a green button and a door slides open. A voice in French immediately starts telling you what to to. I presume it says wait for the door to close automatically, sit down ( pull down your pants! Maybe she says that but the voice goes all the time) and when you are finished press the flush button. And then nothing happens! And the voice keeps telling you to do things, untill you realise that you have to get out so you press a button with arrows and then your understand the word "sortir sortir" and you get out. The door then slides shut and a blue light appears. You wait a few minutes and you hear the flushing of the toilet and the toilet seat and the floor. Swish, swash, swish and then the green light comes on again! And you can start all over again!
Have met Arthur from England, on the pontoon near to us. He is fixing up his mini barge to take a trip down the Garonne canal to Bordeaux. He has sailed ( in a sailboat) around the world twice, 11 years and then 12 years. Can just imagine the stories he has to tell. He has just spent two months in Cape Town, not on a boat.
The boat next to us is a proper barge completely fitted out like a home with curtains and flowers and a cat. These two children are on the boat with their grandparents.
Gunilla has befriended the family's cat.
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