July 1, 2024 to July 2, 2024
Two days in Lyon
Idleness
The Confluence where our hotel is is really quite a long way from the centre of Lyon - too far for me to walk. Lyon has a wonderful transport system and the tram came to near us. On Monday we braved the trams and quite unsure which line went where we ended up goodness knows where. It was a pretty down market district so we found a reasonable place for lunch then back to watch the rather mundane stage 3 of the Tour de France
Yesterday rather than bend our minds trying to work out where the trams went we wandered around the local area. This area at the Confluence is a very modern development and something I really haven’t seen before in France - like all things French it is done with style. A n inlet comes in from the Soane, there are small boats tied up and on one side of this the gigantic Confluence Mall into which our hotel is built. On the other side are exceptionally high end looking appartments and on the street level attractive looking cafes, restaurants and even a rather extraordinary looking bike shop full of those bikes that mums cart the children around in/on. The prices of these all about 6000E so certainly not cheap. We had a very good pizza for lunch, walked back via the Soane and saw cruise liners ready to take off. Back to our room Stage 4 of the Tour was certainly exciting- I am a great fan of Pogcar so was particularly excited
Altogether a very relaxing time. Just now we have to organise our belongs and wait for the taxi to take us to the airport for the long flight home
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