Lyon, France Travel Blogs

Collioule, Avignon, Lyon
Mar 30, 2006 (15 photos)

... made of sterner stuff and walked all the way. Even Margaret had forgotten that it was Ascension Thursday, a public holiday throughout France and when we reached Cathédrale Saint Jean we found ourselves at a special Mass. We counted more than one hundred ...

A night in Lyon
Apr 9, 2004 (1 photos)

After stopping in Avignon for a bit of a break and a peek at the Palace of the Popes, we headed off to spend the night in Lyon. Took a lovely walk around the city at night and took many photos, only to have not a single one work out!

Lyon, France
May 9, 2008 (19 photos)

... a polar bear. I don't know it this was some indecision in the bureaucracy or if polar bears actually have something to do with Lyon, France. If anyone knows the answer to this, please help me out. We took the funicular to the top of the hill where a ...

Part 3 - the return of the afros keeping to ...
Jan 15, 2003

... really enjoyed France, but I was kinda of just looking forward to getting home and recovering but we have two nights in France. Ok - back to Lyon to do some Lyon stuff and then home. A quick bus ride to the train station and onto one of Frances better ...

Vieux Lyon (World)
Feb 15, 2007 (4 photos)

... , had we known how busy it would be we would have made reservations at a good place prior to getting into town. Vieux Lyon is certainly worth visiting though. The Basilica up the hill from there, and the old Roman ruins just down from the Basilica are ...

Lyon, France
May 15, 2005 (1 photos)

... war period marked the beginning of the race for modernity with a new challenge, the construction of Europe. Lyon acquired a European dimension through the development of the transportation system, hotel and other tourist facilities, cultural establishments ...

Gastronomic Capital
Jan 7, 2007 (23 photos)

... we got a value-added extra by stopping in Fontainbleu. There is a magnificent palace here which is a plce where Napoleon marched up the stairs many moons ago. Here was my chance to have a chocolate eclair in France! Not many photos, but enjoy!! L :-)

Chateau De Cruix, Beaujolais Wine Region
Jul 24, 2008 (5 photos)

... some to bring home to our families). We also tried their "Eau de Vie," or Water of Life (soon to be outlawed in France because of the high alcohol content) that is made by fermenting all of the grape skins/branch pieces that are scraped out of the bottom ...

Windy Lyon
Nov 18, 2006 (7 photos)

... great dinner prepared by Tomaso, a vegan vegetable tart, and more talk about Canada and how badly Tomaso and Claudio want to leave France. Except for the wind, the weather was good during my brief stay and luckily the rain held off until the day of my ...

Lyon
Feb 27, 2007

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Brief summary to friends. Just to say I'm alive
Jun 17, 2004

... Yeah, I know, there is a lot, but you all know how snap happy I am. :) My first month (March) in France I spent in Lyon. A cute little town in the South East near the Alps. The month flew by very quickly. Nothing majorly interesting happened there, so ...

Lyon...Flash in the Pan!
Jun 6, 2005

... the 2nd hotel that David had had to book for our trip, as the travel agent didn't have one suitable/available in Lyon. Yet another fantastic hotel that was close to the train stop. The hotel was almost brand new and very modern...the rooms were ...

Lyon
Oct 28, 2002 (2 photos)

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Jul 23, 2008

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La Belle Ville de Lyon: A Tourist's Tale
Jan 7, 2007 (34 photos)

le 5 janvier | January 5th| 一月五日 After a long flight from Vancouver to Lyon via Amsterdam with KLM Royal Dutch, which by the way was one of the most excellent airlines I have ever flied with, I was absolutely exhausted. For ...

Serendipity
Jul 7, 2006 (3 photos)

... looked forward to the most in the past few weeks of planning is heading outside of this city to explore the rest of France. My expectations have been met and even surpassed. Driving has given us the time to enjoy the French countryside as we weave our ...

Meeting Dylan in Lyon for the new adventure
Oct 12, 2006 (14 photos)

... -morning and agreed to leave our bags at Lucie while we could go enjoy some adventure in the city before leaving to the middle of France in Auvergne. Our walk went just as it come and started well, having a blind man 'showing us' the way in town from ...

A terra dos giradouros
Sep 9, 2008

... alugar um carro na França. Também alugamos um carro na Itália e eu também vou falar sobre isso depois. Alugamos o carro em Lyon, pegamos no aeroporto, foi fácil achar o local, pegar os documentos, o carro estava parado num estacionamento com outros carros como ...

Lyon
Jun 13, 2006 (7 photos)

... , not very deep, but after a month and lots of French people, we have started loving these guys. I am off to find a park and consume the tons of food we have from the market. Tomorrow it is off to Toures and then down to South Western France and Spain

Offal and rain
Jun 1, 2007 (4 photos)

... view of Lyon. It was alright though, we only stayed there as a stop gap to Switzerland. The train journey from Lyon to Interlaken was long but comfortable and we got speaking to a couple from New York and discussed the differences between the ...

Lyon
Aug 8, 2008

       So we made it out of Switzerland and into France during what seems to be everybody´s vacation time. We wanted to get to the coast of Spain near Barcelona but this is as far as we could get. We will try tommorow to get to ...

The Traboule with Lyon
Sep 14, 2008 (6 photos)

... to spot them everywhere, as they are recognisable by the arched ceilings of the doorway.   Lyon is well-known for being the gastronomic capital of France, and apparently has more square metres of restaurant space than any other city in France. I ...

CONTIKI - LYON (Beaujolais Wine Region)
May 13, 2009

... walked up the hill to the pub and had our baguettes and pints for lunch and played some Aussie rules football in the small streets of France. We then headed back home to play some touch footy on the lawn, which I did for a couple of seconds before I was ...

Arrive in Lyon
May 11, 2006

Arrived in Lyon and met up with Joyceee at Perrache. After a relatively long trip I was ready to crash, but instead we decided to acclimate my internal clock. So we had a big dinner with Amanda and Alicia, which was absolutely hilarious. Day 1 was awesome. ...

Lyon: A Museum Goer's Tale (Part I)
Jan 27, 2007 (9 photos)

To be updated

Allez - Lyonnais!
May 28, 2005 (2 photos)

... fish the whole time..it was pretty funny. Well, after over 24 hours of travel we finally arrived at our destination, Lyon, France. Unfortunately, we couldn't find the hotel and were forced to walk the streets until 11pm!! Finally, after calling Chris' mom ...

Chinese New Year's Celebration with Friends
Feb 19, 2007

We had a really great time celebrating Chinese New Year. It was tough for me personally to be away from home and not being able celebrate this important holiday with my family... for the first time ever! But my friends certainly helped! See the photos ...

Lyon
Mar 28, 2006

Land of Buchons and Trabules, this was Michelle's preferred destination for the trip home. We walked the city streets and the steps and loved the cobbled lanes. that night, we dined at a buchon, which specialise in pork cuts. we ate bread and pork ...

Frogs legs and snails yum yum
Mar 28, 2007

... hotel, lucky we had Ricky and Louis with us or we would have gotten completely lost. It was overall a pretty quiet night in Lyon because we had spent most of the day driving so we were really knackered. probably went to get at about 1230 which is deemed ...

Lyon, France
Jul 22, 2007 (5 photos)

Lyon, France   Sunday, July 22   Having a rental car has really opened up the countryside! We're able to drive through some of the most beautiful countryside - sunflower fields as far as you can see - and today we came through the mountains ...