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Lyon Slideshow
Lyon
Travel Blogs from Lyon, France
Corbelin to Lyon via Crimieu
... not the same on your own, a snack under the tree with the ruins is better. And, I'm still the only tourist in France!! Incredible, I have this beautiful spiritual medieval place to myself. If this were in Aus there would be lines of noisy people gawking ...
And so the journey begins!!
... Calgary to Ottowa, then Ottowa to Frankfurt and now we are speeding along the German countryside in a very smooth train bound for Lyon, France, where we will be spending the night before picking up our rental vehicle tomorrow morning. At this point Lee ...
Repetition
... I have got to say you can clearly see that I am loving it here. I discovered just the other day that I am falling in love, with France that is. La vie Francaise. Something is so different about this time in France and I cant quite put my finger on it. I ...
Its like bird poop- but clean
Today it was hard to wake up- but luckily I didn't forget it was Emma’s Birthday. I said a cheery Happy birthday in French and ate my breakfast. Today we had an excursion with Lynda, ZooZoo and the French mother of Rebecca. I went in the car with ...
In the car boot
Today we had another excursion, this time it was in the nearby town of Aime. We were with the French mother of Beth K. We saw the Aime Church, the "sovereign hill" type school that was built before the First World War and walked around the little town. ...
Snowed in
... judgments are made on my country and here I am exploring the world in order to break the stereotypes about other countries and cultures. France has its share of stereotypes, but I make it a daily job to remind myself that they are just that. One person ...
Lounging in Lyon
... today, took a walk along the river before dinner but tomorrow we indeed to explore all the sites as we leave for south of France early on the TGV on Saturday. Pete managed to get us here today with ease, despite very little English on the signs at ...
Tout Va Bien
Well I had my first dinner last night with the family. I really feel part of the family here and it has only been a day. I am not treated like a guest, but more like a member of the family. We all cook dinner together and it is nice. Last night I helped ...
Week 5 - France
... , about 2 hours south of Paris, nicknamed the ‘City of Lights’ and is allegedly the foodie capital of France. It’s quite a bustling city, and oozes old-world charm, with a mixture of ancient Roman ruins, meticulously constructed Gothic, ...
Hormones and crap
So what's up with hormones anyway, and why do they have to make life seem so damn complicated? Ok it’s not the hormones that make life complicated; life is that ...
News Years Eve and Day
The 31st of December and the 1st of January I woke-up late again, which was nice because the game ran a little later last night. I got dressed and showered then went of Skype with my family. I watched them welcome their new year in style. A party popper ...
The first of the doggy dooooo!!!
... more to say about Avignon - it was a nice but short (as always) visit to another quite lovely historic place! Left Avignon to head for Lyon. Went out for dinner at a lovely restaurant in Lyon. The bus was parked on the side of a very busy road that we had ...
Christion Dior, you wasted your life
... ...of puppets!' An added bonus was that, being twenty-five rather than twenty-six, I got in for free. I realise now why I entered France feeling quite low. This is because, not only had I not chatted to anyone in nearly five days, but the German and ...
Lyon
After Paris, took a quick trip to Lyon. Here we went to a vineyard and did some wine tasting. I'm not a wine afficionado, but the experience was still cool. Afterwards, we went to Le Pont du Gard, some high bridge that isn't in service ...
Lyon, once again
Thus, I begin where I have begun many times before: My home and current residence of Lyon, France. Every time I set out from the eerily familiar train station of Part Dieu, I look back to all my previous voyages, both for courage and for wisdom. I do not ...
Finally...Arrival in Lyon
... Took a quick taxi and voila, we were at the Lyon Sofitel Hotel right on the Rhone river. We found out rather quickly that people in Lyon don't speak English as much as they do in Paris. The hotel was nice. Our room was beautiful: Big bed, plasma tv, nice ...
Jenga
There is something in our mechanics as humans that when one bad thing happens it all just comes tumbling down. When you play jenga the object of the game is to remove pieces while keeping the structure intact. If you compare our lives to the jenga game ...
Casi que no llegamos
Por fin llegamos a Lyon y la bajada de las maletas fue igual de horrible que la subida, pero lo logramos. La señora de Melissa la estaba esperando apenas salimos pero la mía nada que aparecía. Mi señora pensó que yo llegaba en avión entonces se fue ...
Cinématographie, Beaux-Arts & the bad dinner
... , and I certainly never saw a place to get an English breakfast or something similar. Anyway… If you visit France, think about spending a couple days in Lyon. It's only 2 hours from Paris by train, there's some unique sights, and with a little ...
Finding the Alambic Museum
... reservations in the hotel at 8 and the music starts at 8:30. Tomorrow we turn our car in at the airport and go to Lyon to board our ship. GPS is wonderful and I wouldn't travel without it. Well, that's an overstatement. ...
Gastronomique
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Dancing in the street
When I woke up this morning no part of me wanted to leave my warm and cozy bed but of course I did. I got up and did my hair and makeup and picked out a warm outfit to ...
The Tower of Terror
... way ahead of us. Little did we know. We finally reached the freeway. The speed limit on the freeways in France is 130 KM/hour or 80 miles per hour. Vans and busses can only do 100 KM (62 MPH). Ten minutes ...