We live in Escalquens, a village close to Toulouse (13 kms ), in a very quiet place, with a friendly neighbourhood. You can find many local shops in Escalquens, and a large shopping center with restaurants at 10 min drive.

Toulouse is at 20 minutes (10 min drive to the subway, then direct to the center with free car park). Toulouse is a very nice and interesting city with many historic places to visit, museums, attractions and fine restaurants :
http://www.toulouse-tourisme.com/

About 5 kms from the house, is the "Canal du midi", which connects Toulouse with Sete. It's totally shady and you can safely walk or bike :
http://en.tourismecanaldumidi.fr/

The countryside is very rich and varied :
Pyrenees mountains for walking and hiking, medieval city of Carcassonne (40 min), Albi with its beautiful cathedral (1 hour), and many remarkable villages as Cordes-sur-ciel, Rocamadour, Moissac, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie are less than 2 hours from Escalquens
You can visit various prehistoric caves, like Niaux or Mas d' Azil, (1 h by car).
You can easily reach the Mediterranean sea in 1h30.

http://tourisme-midi-pyrenees.com/
http://www.albi-tourisme.fr/
http://www.carcassonne-tourisme.com

Our house surface is 165 m2 : On the ground floor, there is a large kitchen, a large living room with TV and fireplace, a dining room connecting with the outside terrace. There is also toilets, and a utility room.
Mid upstairs, we have a large playroom-library (lots ok books, toys, TV for DVD or wii, electric piano, guitar, PC).
Upstairs, there are 5 rooms (2 double-bedrooms and 3 single bedrooms), one bathroom, one showeroom and toilets.
Outside, a shaded terrace with outdoor equipments (barbecue and plancha), a swimming pool (7,5 m x 3,5 m), with a wood deck and security fence for children if needed, a large trampoline for children.
In front of the house, a large and quiet place where children can play safely.
We have 3 bikes (3 adults ) and a unicycle.
We have a Renault Scenic 5 seats.

About us : Sabine is 48, she works in training for teachers, Jean-François is 49, and works as a risk manager. We have 3 children : a girl (18 student), and two boys (16 and 13, secondary school). We also have a very kind cat, that only needs to be fed and sleeps outside.

We have already made 9 wonderful exchanges with Intervac :

Summer 2008 Denmark, Nyborg
Summer 2009 Ireland, Limerick
Christmas 2010 Spain, Vilafranca del Penedes
October 2011 France, Paris
Summer 2012 Netherlands, Amsterdam
Summer 2015 Switzerland, Lausanne
Summer 2016 Canada, Montréal
Summer 2017 Spain, Tolosa
Summer 2018 Guadeloupe, French West Indies

We hope to hear you soon !