- Up around 9, breakfast in hotel. French breakfasts are mostly bread, cheese, a little meat, and of course "cafe au lait", or "cafe" if you want an expresso (try drinking a cafe without scrunching your face up). Walked to tourist bureau and bought 2-day city passes. The fabric museum "Musee d'Tissue" was nearby, saw some cool silk works. Walked to tram ("funicular") at bottom of hill, took it up to the cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Fourviere. The Catholics definitely got the good views, expansive across Lyon, the two rivers (Saone and Rhone), etc. Walked to old cemetery behind cathedral, then down to not one but two Roman Amphitheaters. Back down on the tram to the hotel, then took a 1-hr. boat ride on the Saone (included in city pass). Dinner was at some ordinary french place, then took the funicular back up to the cathedral for night views of Lyon.
14 years ago