I met Raghu after my weekly call with Tom. We agreed to meet around 7:00 pm and walked down to the banks of the Garonne to sit and chat. It was Raghu’s last night in Toulouse. He is heading to Gijon, Spain for his next stop on his digital nomad life.

As we sat on the edge of the river, the sunset began to set and it was magical as almost every sunset is in Toulouse. There is something about the light here that makes each sunset beautiful and unique. Unless it is cloudy all day, you get a beautiful sunset.

Raghu and I joked that you can never take enough photos of the sunsets. I joked that after my time here – this being the third trip – I have hundreds of sunset pictures. I do not think that is truly accurate but I have quite a few. If you have followed the blog, you have seen a number of the sunsets at the post main picture.

Even locals are mesmerized by the sunsets. The quais along the river are always packed with people at sunset. One of the runners I follow on Instagram posted a picture of the sunrise and had Phil Collin’s song Another Day in Paradise as the accompaniment.

The pictures are all from the sunset tonight. Here is one of Raghu and myself. I hate selfies but it was nice to take one of Raghu as he is part of my Toulouse experiences.

The rest of my day was the normal Toulouse day. I went to the Marchè Victor Hugo to buy some protein for dinner tonight. Wednesday is a cook at home night. I love going to the market and see all the activities and to wander the stalls and check out all the things that I do not get to eat in the U.S. I had wanted to buy guinea hen (a traditional poultry in Toulouse) but they did not have any today. I had seen some on Sunday but it was on offer today. I will have to look for it on the weekend again. I ended up with chicken.

While out walking, I saw the tour boat entering the canal de Brienne. The lock at the entrance of the canal lock from the river had been restored the last time I was living here. I had seen the boat in the canal before but never seen it enter the canal. I stopped to watch and became fascinated as the lock must have not been working properly. There were at least six workers looking at the lock gates and doing different activities. The boat came in and sat for a very long time. I, unfortunately, was too impatient to stay and see the resolution but it was interesting seeing all the back and forth trying to get the lock to work correctly. It seemed like one set of the lock gates was not closing completely so they could not open the other set of gates. I felt for the tourists on the boat that were just sitting on the boat in the lock with all this going on.