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Collioule, Avignon, Lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

Collioule, Avignon, Lyon

A travel blog entry by cullism

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... were 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 ...

A night in Lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

A night in Lyon

A travel blog entry by itsem

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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 ...

Lyon, France, Lyon, France travel blog

Lyon, France

A travel blog entry by tbassplayer

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... also 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 ...

Part 3 - the return of the afros keeping to ..., Lyon, France, France travel blog

Part 3 - the return of the afros keeping to ...

A travel blog entry by jrcormack

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... 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 ...

Vieux Lyon (World), Lyon, France travel blog

Vieux Lyon (World)

A travel blog entry by kitkatgo

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"Enclave of Medieval and Renaissance France" Ok, first of all, it bugs me that the author spells Lyon as "Lyons." Apparently that is an old spelling. Not sure why she chose to do that, since it seems outmoded and outdated. I spell it L-Y-O-N. That's how ...

Lyon, France, Lyon, France travel blog

Lyon, France

A travel blog entry by benandtrudie

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... . The post-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 ...

Gastronomic Capital, Lyon, France travel blog

Gastronomic Capital

A travel blog entry by lozdotcom

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... 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 ...

Rainy Lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

Rainy Lyon

A travel blog entry by alexcooper

... headed to Bellecour square which is not much but a massive open square with a statue in the middle and a Ferris wheel, France loves their Ferris wheels. From here we could see the pedestrian shopping street which was decorated with lights that would light ...

Chateau De Cruix, Beaujolais Wine Region, Lyon, France travel blog

Chateau De Cruix, Beaujolais Wine Region

A travel blog entry by lrhalladay

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... purchase 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 ...

Tour de France, Lyon, France travel blog

Tour de France

A travel blog entry by thenewlyweds

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... a few hours we went out to explore the city. Lyon was more mellow than I expected for being the second largest city in France. We stopped and looked at the church which was being renovated so you couldn't see the front, but was fairly nice inside. The ...

Windy Lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

Windy Lyon

A travel blog entry by philsed

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... 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, Lyon, France travel blog

Lyon

A travel blog entry by ackc

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Brief summary to friends.  Just to say I'm alive, Lyon, Vienne, Perpignan, Carcassone, France travel blog

Brief summary to friends. Just to say I'm alive

A travel blog entry by ania23

... . 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, ...

Lyon...Flash in the Pan!, Lyon, France travel blog

Lyon...Flash in the Pan!

A travel blog entry by psycik

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... was 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 ...

Lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

Lyon

A travel blog entry by admcc78

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Lyon -  Au Printemps, Lyon, France travel blog

Lyon - Au Printemps

A travel blog entry by rachsoms

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Lyon is now in spring, and oh how we have welcomed the warmer weather. Shorts, sun, sitting by the river and spending afternoons at the park make me realise missing NZ summer was definitely worth it. Apologies for the lack of entries, life has been hectic ...

Short stop in Lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

Short stop in Lyon

A travel blog entry by steven_lamothe

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... for Wednesday (today) and was told I could buy the ticket to Barcelona here at Montpelier. I spent only one night at my hostel in Lyon because it was full for the rest of the week. Because of this, I was only able to see a small portion of the city. This ...

Day 2, Lyon, France travel blog

Day 2

A travel blog entry by thearodgers

Lyon! Unlike Paris, a sprawling city of orange-roofed buildings, it was full of dark and light green fields, small communities of houses with bright blue swimming pools in their back yards. Rolling hills and the Alps in the distance. It was ...

lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

lyon

A travel blog entry by antonym

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Shhhh! You're in Perouges!, Lyon, France travel blog

Shhhh! You're in Perouges!

A travel blog entry by waynedale

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... So back I walked to sleepy Perouges (again!) via the town's favourite landmark, Carrefour, which is a large supermarket chain in France. From there I bought most of what I needed - all those things like juice, cheese, quiche, salads - which would ...

Day 9 - Lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

Day 9 - Lyon

A travel blog entry by ruth-bill

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... buying our house just before we purchased it.  How weird is that?  We come all the way to a boat trip in France to meet our neighbors! After lunch we took an afternoon excursion with the boat's chef, Magalie, who conducted a tour of  ...

La Belle Ville de Lyon: A Tourist's Tale, Lyon, France travel blog

La Belle Ville de Lyon: A Tourist's Tale

A travel blog entry by ackc

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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, Lyon, France travel blog

Serendipity

A travel blog entry by bhendrickson

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... have 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 ...

Meeting Dylan in Lyon for the new adventure, Lyon, France travel blog

Meeting Dylan in Lyon for the new adventure

A travel blog entry by maplefanta

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... -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 ...

First Impressions of Lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

First Impressions of Lyon

A travel blog entry by sjaya

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... you cross the Rhone to enter the other side of the city, you enter Vieux-Lyon (“Old Lyon”), which contains remnants of Medieval France.  Here, the streets are cobblestone, the architecture contains a certain element of historic European ...

A terra dos giradouros, Lyon, France travel blog

A terra dos giradouros

A travel blog entry by erikapessoa

... 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 ...

Offal and rain, Lyon, France travel blog

Offal and rain

A travel blog entry by tiddlywink

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... 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, Lyon, France travel blog

Lyon

A travel blog entry by nighthowl33

       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 ...

The Traboule with Lyon, Lyon, France travel blog

The Traboule with Lyon

A travel blog entry by wells2008

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... 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), Lyon, France travel blog

CONTIKI - LYON (Beaujolais Wine Region)

A travel blog entry by stevencranston

... 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 ...

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