Lyon Stories


Next Stop............... Lyon

Leaving Paris was quite exciting. It was the first time we really used our rail passes, signalled the beginning of our "real trip" (we now had no pre-booked accommodation)and the train we caught took us to Lyon at about 300km per hour!! After arriving at Lyon and getting our bearings, we struck for some accommodation. We soon found something decent...


Australia v Japan

We were off to a bit of a rocky start... after a nice 30 min walk from the hotel to the stadium I had to get the ticket out to find out which gate to enter (stadium was crazy) by the time we got to the right gate and into the 'queue' to enter the stadium i had lost 1 of my tickets!! (i use the 'queue' very loosely, its nothing like going into suncorp, e...


Sunday

After going to bed at 2.30am, none of us were very active on Sunday morning (except Scoop of course, who woke us up a few times in the night with his excellent guard-dog reaction to noises. Apparently he's afraid of any unexpected noise, which is what makes him a good guard-dog!!). Christian went to the market to get some bread for lunch and M-J went ...


Saturday

Oh twas nice to wake up and not be rushing off to the lab to cut open bee heads! I had a sleep-in, then breakfast with M-J and Noriko. M-J showed me around the new parts of the house and the garden. Christian and I then spent the morning doing a fabulous bike-ride between and around 3 of Lyon's parks, riding along the banks of the Rhone river inbet...