1/10/2011 Saturday, on train out of France.

1/10/2011 Saturday in Europe.

Just leaving Toulouse Matabiau station on my way to Lille Europe, as the stop/change for Brussels. Very scary showing up at 4.30 am for a 5.20 train at a closed Toulouse "Gare" with a group of resident street people. We, the early morning travellers, milled around the lighted entrance while the street people circled the outside cadging cigarettes. A really silly place to be!

[My plan is to keep using my Orange Mobicarte Internet max until the last minute, hence trying to write a blog on a phone on a moving train. An interesting pastime. Once out of France I am without internet, unless either the hotel or University provide access.]

Last nght I had my worst meal in France, worse than the fried chicken leg on tinned peas served to us in one of the little "tourist-town" restaurants along the canal. I went to a French Chinese restaurant and was served a truly awful honey-pork and fried rice dish. You learn as you go.