Lyon & Toulon - May 2010 159

Basilica of Notre Dame de Fourviere and Drew. The Basilica contains 2 churches - one of top of the other - it's officially an 'upper and lower sanctuary' but I will call it 'top and bottom church' - way more classy

Le Grille? What the Hell is Le Grille?

May 15th 2010
After our stint is Paris we headed straight for Lyon, a smaller city of about 400 000 (I'm not checking any of my facts, so they're probably wrong). The train to Lyon only takes 2 hours, and train travel is something I've grown very fond of. The TGVs (train de grand vitesse, which pretty much means very fast train (that's a lazy name)) go at about 3-400kmph, so that's a fair distance. Lyon was a ... read more

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