fresh off the farm, or vineyard actually; ben and i were almost giddy with excitement to be on the road again. first stop was noneother than the culinary capital of france, if not the world: Lyon.
the pride and joy of Lyon's churches, set on a hill and everything, it truely was magnificent.
the walls were covered in mosaics which inspired even me, the ever-not-so-crafty, with ideas for DIY projects on our future home.
taking a little break, and yes, a nap, too, at the local roman theatre remains.
a roman statue, chiseled to mythilogical god-like perfection.... oh wait! that's my husband!
in front of a cool fountain whose pic we've left out cuz we're keeping this short as we're super far behind on the blog...sorry folks-guess we've been busy?
one of the many bridges over either the Rhône or Saône River which makes a peninsula of the down town, or
centre-ville.
a HUGE
place or square with the above church tiny in the background.
how cool is that? huge fountain with ball-shaped bouquet and a lone bike rider passing by
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in prep for the next picture, remember me saying Lyon is the culinary capital of France? Well, even after spending some 8ish months there, believe it or not there's still a few dishes i hadn't tried, one of them being andouillettes . i think i'd read somewhere, sometime about what ambiguous animal parts made up this very regional specialty, the region which boasts Lyon, so i figured, when in Rome, right?
and now i ask you...which is worse? To have a dish that looks so amazingly delicious it makes you salivate in anticipation, but ends up tasting like throwup or a dish that LOOKS like throwup, but ends up being suprisingly tasty and intriguing....
believe it or not, i actually enjoyed my dish of edible intestines from various farm animals
Lyon's very cool park included a free zoo!
in case anyone's been wondering about my busted-up knee, it oozed for many a day, or week afterwards...i'm actually sparing you some pics as ben is positive noone else wants to see the day-to-day healing process which i insisted on documenting
