How Toulouse revelers organize themselves after the "coup des bars"

A beer after in a bar in Toulouse.

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• From Monday, the bars of Toulouse will close earlier like all the metropolises placed in "enhanced alert zone" to curb the Covid-19.

• The festayres swing between resignation and avoidance strategies.

• Many are simply thinking of starting the aperitif earlier.

• And the new restrictions raise many unanswered questions.

10 p.m. or earlier, suspense reigns in Toulouse on the time when it will be necessary to stop raising elbows in bars to bump them in by way of goodbye.

The precise time of the cessation of hostilities must be unveiled this Friday by the prefect and the measure, "the coup des bars" for the most hostile, will come into force on Monday, September 28 as part of the new restrictions imposed in the "Enhanced alert zones" to fight against the coronavirus.

And for Gilles, thirty-something accustomed to Toulouse nights, it's double trouble: he learned the news Thursday evening in his gym, where he will no longer be able to go either.

“I said to myself, it's starting again.

I have to go back to cooking at home, ”says the man who is not really used to eating alone at night.

And then the funny notifications started to rain.

“We just have to have a drink at noon!

The friends suggested.

One of them even calculated that, in order not to lose the change and keep the endurance of the evenings of yesteryear, it was necessary to start having a fiesta "at 1:30 pm".

This should not be too complicated since some bars have already decreed “aperitif-resistance” and reported on social networks that they would now serve “non-stop, from noon to 10 pm”.

"We're all going to throw up everywhere afterwards"

Water for those who have a hard tooth and denounce a false good idea.

In a trashy version for John, convinced that “we will have to drink more and more quickly” and that we “will all throw up everywhere afterwards”.

In a pragmatic version for Fred.

"It's rubbish, he believes, you just have to think about it to know that the fact of reducing the time slot will concentrate more people in a shorter time".

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seem more resigned and ready to make concessions.

Sarah thinks that “the ideal is to go back to the evenings at home without schedule restrictions, limited to ten people of course!

"And feels a comeback of the" restaurant / cinema formula ".

If Etienne intends to fall back on “raclette evenings”, Sophie has the blues in this spiral of losing.

"With rather stressed friends, private parties, it's complicated, and meeting new people in these conditions is not easy", confides this single mother of 34 years.

Withdrawals, strategic or not, and unanswered questions

Gilles and his friends are also thinking of going back to evenings at home, “at somebody's place”.

Without really being sure that cramming into apartments on chilly autumn evenings is really less risky.

"I saw everything but in the bars which run really well, the guards really enforce the barrier measures and the distances", underlines the young man.

Many Toulouse residents are finally making "brain knots".

Laurent is going to check on site this Thursday evening whether his favorite trendy restaurant will be spared by the restriction of hours, even if he has a bar to lean on.

In the other direction, what about the bars which serve tapas for meals?

A friend of Gilles may finally celebrate her birthday on a Saturday at noon.

But will she be able to reserve two tables of ten?

The intervention of the prefect this Friday is eagerly awaited.

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