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For a change we stay at a hotel in Lyon, albeit a bit quirky one, Mama Shelter in La Guillotiere. Each room has a selection of masks to be worn in the bar at night, ours have Tweety and Batman masks.
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Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourviere at sunset.
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We find ourselves at Waina, a bar a vin et tapas. We start with a local Sormin beer (French ambree).
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For wine we choose the recommended Le Bel Endroit, Saint-Joseph 2011, which we enjoy with small tapas bites.
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The hotel bar at the breakfast time.
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The next thing on a Saturday morning is to haul ourselves to the Finnish Consulate in Fourviere to vote in the European Parliament Elections.
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Velo'V, city bikes of Lyon.
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Saint-Jean-Baptiste Cathedral in the old town Lyon.
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We climb up on Montee du Chemin-Neuf to the Finnish Consulate.
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After voting we visit the ancient Roman theatre ruins of Fourviere.
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Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourviere. The "problem" with the ancient destinations is that they are almost always under renovation, so they cannot be really appreciated.
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Another view over Lyon from the Basilique.
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Another view of the Basilique.
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We take the rose garden route back to the old town.
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The descent is very steep but luckily there are some stairs, too.
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An alley in Saint-Georges.
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He has a cool bike, and he looks even cooler after putting on his helmet and riding away.
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We walk all the way down to La Confluence, an urban area formerly dedicated to transport and manufacturing, but now redeveloped into residential and recreational use. This is the Confluence mall.
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And these are the Confluence swans.
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Le Cube Orange, and office and cultural building.
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Supposedly an apartment building.
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We take a long walk around the southern tip of the Presqu'ile peninsula to get to the Rhone side.
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Musee des Confluences, a science centre and anthropology museum, still under construction.
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A bridge over Rhone to Gerland.
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And here we are finally, at Ninkasi Gerland Brewery. We have 25cl tasters of all six of their beers. The bartender responds to the order with somewhat lame "ok", like we did not know what we are doing. We do, and the beers are not bad: pale ale, wheat, pilsner, raspberry, smoked, and tripple.
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We have a burger and Oslo salad (*) from their take-away counter since the restaurant is not open. Their beer is much better than their food.
(*) anything with cold cured salmon can be called Norwegian.
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We had somewhat high expectations, but Ninkasi did not impress us.
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For dinner we head to the neighborhood restaurant "En Mets fais ce qu'il te plait", with the chef Katsumi Ishida. We have the degustation menu for 48 euros per person.
We start with the octopus with mango-coriander salsa and white asparagus.
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Then we have some meaty white fish with mushroom sauce.
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The meat dish is pork and duck(?) with asparagus.
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And the dessert, we never pay much attention to it anyway ...
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Our last day opens gorgeous with blue skies and cool temperatures.
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We head out for a run (like many others) by the river Rhone.
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We run to the Parc de la Tete d'Or, and back.
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After the run we head out to La Presqu'Ile once more, but find all the shops and cafes closed.
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We walk all the way to La Fontaine Bartholdi to find some very touristy places open for lunch.
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and salmon tartar at OPUS.
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After the lunch we walk up to see the traboules La Cour des Voraces, but we never find the place.
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Checking the place online afterwards makes us wonder even more why we did not find it.
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Anyway, we descend some hundreds of steps back to the town.
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The last destination is to visit a bottle shop in the old town for some French IPA, and then we are ready to board a train back to Grenoble.
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