We arrived at our final stop. Well our final stop, for a few weeks anyway. There was a bit of mis-communication and lack of technology to get in touch with the people to pick us up last night, but that’s ok. We found a little hotel near the train station in Toulouse and stayed up late talking.
In the morning, we took another train to a beautiful small town 40 minutes away from Toulouse. Someone was there to pick us up and drove another 10 minutes out into the countryside to the chateau where we are staying. Let me just say, ‘IT IS BEAUTIFUL!’
The rolling wheat fields are mixed with fields and fields of golden sunflowers. There are two peacocks here at the chateau. They are beautiful, the male enjoys displaying his tail feathers often. I can’t get over all the colors and have never hung out so closely with a peacock. Our room is up on the 3 floor looking out over the trees and into the distant fields. Oh the magic.
Samia Shalabi is a Seattle based artist & designer, yogi and traveler who has roots in the Middle-East, was raised in the middle-west and is drawn to India. She has a degree in geology, has traveled all over the world with a backpack, and believes in following her dreams. Samia does yoga most mornings, enjoys walks around Seattle, loves to laugh, and daydreams about where to travel next. She is working on a movie shoot in France.
