Spinning disk in the park
Drove to Toulouse for the weekend. It’s 68 km away and the drive was under an hour on the peage road. Toulouse is a huge bustling city. ¼ of the population are students so there’s heaps of places to eat, drink and be merry.
We booked to go on the Airbus factory tour for Saturday morning. It went for 1.5 hours and was very informative. The airbus company is privately owned and employs 57000 people worldwide in various aspects of its manufacture, 17000 people employed just in Toulouse. It takes them a year to build one plane. They have orders for 220 planes to build, 50 of them for Emirates. We flew on the A380 from Sydney to Singapore and it’s certainly an impressive aircraft.
We went to a ghastly expat bar called “The Frog and Rosbif”. We ordered 2 fruit cocktails for the kids and 2 pints of beer and it cost 20 euros. Even Andrew was shocked. They make their own beer on the premises and it’s a bit more reasonably priced.
We booked to go on the Airbus factory tour for Saturday morning. It went for 1.5 hours and was very informative. The airbus company is privately owned and employs 57000 people worldwide in various aspects of its manufacture, 17000 people employed just in Toulouse. It takes them a year to build one plane. They have orders for 220 planes to build, 50 of them for Emirates. We flew on the A380 from Sydney to Singapore and it’s certainly an impressive aircraft.
We went to a ghastly expat bar called “The Frog and Rosbif”. We ordered 2 fruit cocktails for the kids and 2 pints of beer and it cost 20 euros. Even Andrew was shocked. They make their own beer on the premises and it’s a bit more reasonably priced.
The big blue thing in the photos is a spinning disk in the park which the kids had an absolute ball on. It spins around and you can either be sitting on top of it or hanging on to the edge as it goes around. Ella loves anything wacky like this. It spins around quite quickly and it looked so funny when it first lifted Ella up at speed and whipped her around. Andrew and I were cracking up laughing.
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