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\"toulouse<\/p>\n

I’ve just had a new short piece on the French city of Toulouse published on lonelyplanet.com<\/a>, outlining some of the many reasons to explore this often-overlooked southwest city – often known as ‘La Ville Rose’, or the Pink City.<\/p>\n

From river trips to historic h\u00f4tels particuliers <\/em>(aristocratic mansions)\u00a0it’s one of my favourite French cities. I recently went back to update the latest Lonely Planet guidebook to France, and spent quite a few happy hours exploring\u00a0the markets and soaking up the sunbaked vibe.<\/p>\n

Toulouse is also an ideal launchpad for exploring the rest of France’s southwest corner: the wine country of Languedoc-Roussillon and the peaks of the Pyrenees are all with easy reach, and yet for some reason the city is a lot less touristy than better-known cities like Nice, Lyon and Biarritz.<\/p>\n

There are two things I like to do every time I go to Toulouse: visit the Halles Victor-Hugo<\/a>, the city’s wonderful covered market, and take a bike ride along the banks of the Canal du Midi<\/a>, France’s longest man-made waterway, built by the architect Pierre-Paul Riquet between\u00a01666 and 1681<\/span>.<\/p>\n

It’s an amazing feat of engineering, and was built to connect France’s Mediterranean and Atlantic Coasts – meaning trade no longer had to travel all the way around Spain.<\/p>\n

Sadly, many of the plane trees planted along the canal’s banks have been affected by an infectious fungus and are having to be cut down, as detailed in this BBC report<\/a>. Some of them are more than 200 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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