'The Font' wants to go shopping for shoes. Apparently this can't be done locally or on line. Shoe shopping requires driving into Toulouse, circumnavigating the huge roadworks and finding the underground car park in the middle of the temporary one way system. I'm told 'We' want to be there when the stores open. This means leaving the PONs and heading off just before nine.
While 'The Font' shops Angus visits the little Tunisian store that makes Baklava. This morning they have just made tray upon tray of ever so slightly garish marzipan fruit. The lady who makes them comes out from the kitchen. She recognizes me as a regular customer and insists I eat a marzipan pear.
Fuelled by this unexpected sugar rush Angus goes off in search of a cake for dinner.
There are a variety of exotic looking concoctions in the fancy bakers window but innate Presbyterianism rejects anything that is day glo lime or purple and violet as being 'suspicious'. We opt for a raspberry and strawberry tart.
The purchases are put in the back of the car. This is on sub level 4 of the car park so Angus feels virtuous in using the stairs both up and down. The cake and the assorted marzipan fruits ( and Baklava ) will be a just reward for all the climbing.
Amazing how much time shoe buying can take. Angus has a solitary croissant on the central square. For the very heart of Toulouse you'd think that the croissant would merit a 10/10. It turns out to be expensive but chewy. The German and English tourists who are sitting in the sun and feeling cosmopolitan seem happy enough with them.
Back at home the angelic duo are not impressed.
Let it never be said that dogs don't have 'that' guilt inducing look for owners who go off for croissants without them.
'The Font' announces that the shoes that have been ordered will be in tomorrow. Shops apparently no longer maintain stock. '' We can go back and collect them any time after ten ".
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6 comments:
So another round of baklava, marzipan and cakes tomorrow? Or maybe there's a wine shop to visit in Toulouse?
I like 'The Font's' approach. Not just one pair of shoes, it sounds like, but multiples. Might there be a fashion show?
Baklava is a wonderful treat.
I agree 100% with the Font. Shoe-shopping requires trying them on, walking around the store to see whether they pinch. And Toulouse has a fair number of shoe selections.
Speaking of shoes and Place du Capitole, there's a whole hidden world of secret shops a floor up from the street level, where you have to be buzzed in. Specifically, an amazing dance shop with not only tutus but shoes for every kind of dance.
I used to always park at Esquirol, but with all the roadworks for the trams and the changes from two-way to one-way streets (and I don't have a GPS) I now park near the Jardin des Plantes and walk to the center. Which must surely merit a baklava. Will look for Délices de Tunis next time.
Hari Om
marzipan??? bakalava??? excuse me whilst I melt in drool... YAM xx
We agree with you about avoiding the day glo coloured cakes. Although we are intrigued by the lilac coloured concoction and the one labelled Tonka and wouldn't mind a little sliver of both to taste.
Shoe shopping does need a visit to the shop, as sizes vary and it seems such a waste to pay to get them delivered, and then pay to send them back with online shopping. I wish that I could be like my father. He found one pair of boots that he liked, and then bought 10 pairs of them to last him the last 20 years of his life. His only other pairs were a pair of slippers and one pair of slip on summer slides.
Julie Q
OMD.... I WANT CAKE !!!!!!
Wags,
Ranger
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