Paris to Nice Cruise Lyon November 2009

     Since our balcony room was even with the walking/jogging path, I bid adieu to the small group who took a walking tour to the local market to buy some bread for our dinner on board tonight.
     Later we piled into a bus to take a city tour of this World Heritage Site.  This 2,000 year old city is the third largest in France and was once the capital of Gaul under the Romans.  We wore headsets so we could follow Pierre’s narrative.
     Lyon flourished as a Renaissance trading center because of its location at the juncture of the Saone and Rhoine Rivers and its extensive silk industry; also known as a gastronomic capital as well as capital of the French Resistance during WWII.
     My favorite stop was across the street from “La Fresque des Lyonnaes” on a building which had been completely covered by famous people coming out of doorways or looking out of windows in a “trompe d’oielle” style
     Two examples were the Lumiere brothers who invented moving pictures and St. Exupery with “The Little Prince.”
     Our dinner that night included escargots (snails) and I bravely ate one of Kathy’s. 
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