La famille

Bumped into a nice group of Brits. We took turns snapping photos for each other after the older gent told us how he had just freaked out some other tourists by feigning to run away with their nice camera. Made me nervous. But I just smiled.

Only Lyon

July 19th 2011
Well, we woke up to an overcast day. But that's ok cuz we had planned to go into Lyon which we knew would be mainly indoors. At first, we went to the TGV (train de grande vitesse) station outside Valence, but when we discovered the cheapest fare for the mere 30 minute train ride was 120 Euros (gulp!), we drove to Lyon instead. We parked at a P&R outside Lyon and hopped on the Metro (only 6 Eur ... read more

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