{"id":2323,"date":"2012-10-15T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2012-10-18T05:21:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T12:21:03","slug":"visiting-prakash-in-toulouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Prakash in Toulouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our friends from university, Prakash, has been living in Toulouse for the past 6 months learning French. Since we were in the neighborhood, we decided to pop in and have a visit!<\/p>\n<p>We were meant to drop the car we rented off in Toulouse when we arrived, but we decided to keep it for a couple more days to tour around the area. After a lot more hassle than we expected (because we had had the car for 30 days already) we convinced them to let us keep it for a couple more days.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/albums\/286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Courtney and Prakash\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/photos\/8129\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney and Prakash at the overlook from St. Cirq Lapopie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>First stop we made were the beautiful hillside villages of St. Cirq Lapopie and\u00c2\u00a0Rocamadour.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/albums\/286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"St. Cirq Lapopie\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/photos\/8126\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretty stunning location<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After a long day of driving we were treated to a fantastic dinner cooked by his host family who were were allowed to stay with as well.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, we headed off to the famous walled city of\u00c2\u00a0Carrcasonne.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/albums\/291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Carrcasonne\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/photos\/8215\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrcasonne fortress entrance.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After these tours around the area. Prakash showed us the other thing he&#8217;s been up to while in Toulouse. Cooking! He&#8217;s been taking cooking classes at a nearby school over the time he&#8217;s been in France and when we mentioned that we were interested in doing the same somewhere in France, he said his school would be a great place. Its very casual, just make a reservation for the day and session you want and show up on time! They do two sessions over lunch with a 30 minute cooking course where you prepare and cook an entire plate, but this is no &#8220;Rachel Ray 30 minute meals&#8221;, this is some seriously good food, prepared in a proper French way with a real chef guiding you. And then you eat the results! And then they give you dessert! And wine! And coffee! All for about 15 euro. Which makes it a pretty good deal to learn and eat a nice two course menu.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/albums\/293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cooking Carrots\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/photos\/8233\/medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another friend of Prakash in action at the cooking class.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had a great time in Toulouse and Prakash was a great host, as was his host family. We&#8217;re really fortunate to have great friends all over the world now, its just too bad we aren&#8217;t able to visit them all this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our friends from university, Prakash, has been living in Toulouse for the past 6 months learning French. Since we were in the neighborhood, we decided to pop in and have a visit! We were meant to drop the car we rented off in Toulouse when we arrived, but we decided to keep it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[98,108],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","tag-europe","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}