Last Sunday we woke up in Carcassonne and packed up and headed back to Toulouse for our final day and night in France. One week on, we are back at home in Gibraltar and school has restarted, the events of a week ago, almost feel like a dream already!
Back in Toulouse
On our final afternoon in Toulouse we went out for a walking tour once we had returned the hire car and done our packing. We headed past the museum (above) and into the beautiful cathedral of St Sernin. I haven’t had the chance to download any photos off my camera yet, so sadly this is the only one I snapped on my phone. You can just about spot the spire of St Sernin poking up on the left.
Between checking out and going to the airport, we had a few hours to kill on Monday morning, so we headed back to the beautiful parks. I can’t get enough of these floral bridges linking them together. The play park was beautifully equipped for the youngest Postcards, what a wonderful place to end our holiday, there was even a coffee bar and cafe under the shady trees.
Back to the queues
Once back home, we had to head into Spain to do a spot of back to school shopping. The long queue back into Gib reminded us why we don’t do it very often…
#InstagrammerOfGibraltar
This week, I was very honoured to be featured as Your Gibraltar TV’s Instagrammer of Gibraltar. It made my day!
End of the summer…
Thursday’s sunset marked not just the end of August, but also the end of the school summer holidays in Gibraltar. Rather annoyingly, the children returned to school on Friday for 3 or 3 and 3/4 hours depending on their ages, and they won’t return until Tuesday as we have a bank holiday this weekend. Doesn’t strike me as being the best planning, but what do I know?!
Dinner out
Friday night meant a lovely dinner out for me with my Mum and Dad. They arrived in Gibraltar on Wednesday and are over for a few weeks. It was so nice to catch up with their news and fill them in on all our holiday adventures.
Gibraltar calling …
It’s that time of the year again – Music Festival time. This year it’s been run by MTV, and is being broadcast all over the world. Yesterday was the first day and featured artists as diverse as The Amazons, Jonas Blue, the Village People And Ricky Martin. Doing the YMCA dance with the Village People has to be my highlight of the day!
It’s hard to believe that we are into September already, the long summer holiday has flown really quickly for me. Mind you, we have beeen incredibly lucky to be able to have several trips away to amazing places; Portugal, Rome, and France in just one month! Watch out for up coming posts with loads of photos of these beautiful places.
I’m linking with Natalie from Threads & Bobbins for this weekly blog series.
You’ve had such a lovely summer. I have to admit to being a wee bit envious. Love that floral bridge!
We have had a wonderful summer – you are right. It’s not normal for us to have so much time together as a family nor to be able to travel so much. We had an opportunity for my husband to take some time off work so we grabbed it! Next year’s 2 weeks in England is going to be a bit of a come down I fear!
The floral bridges were beautiful, such a wonderful idea, it felt like the parks just flowed into each other spanning a huge traffic roundabout and dual carriages at, such a lovely way to link the parks.
Well done – never easy for hubby’s to take time off work when you’ve got a young family. Great to see you put it to such good use 🙂
Thanks, that’s what we thought, by the time he’s able to do it again he’ll be retired and the children probably won’t want to go on holiday with us oldies! (Unless they are skint and desperate that is!! 😉).
The trick when they’re older is to tempt them with really good holidays. And although most go through a patch when they wouldn’t be seen dead on holiday with their parents, I think they all come back round to enjoying family holiday’s again. But still they might be the ones then not able to have time off for too long a holiday 🙁
Oh that’s a good tip, thanks we’ll bear that in mind for future reference! 😊