Lyon

6/11/12

Call us wussy, but we moved round to the port to have some electricity when guests were on board (especially kids)!

The recently constructed (and perhaps never finished) port is great, and bang in the town centre. It is overlooked on one side by a commercial centre with all manner of shops, restaurants, a cinema, and even a climbing wall! On the other are some very geometric appartment blocks and more restaurants, overlooking a tranquil pool, the middle of which we plonked ourselves in!!!

We took full advantage of the facilities listed, except the climbing wall ;-)

A great visit with friends and their munchkins, hope it wasn't the bunk which put Virginies back out (soigne toi bien ma Vir!) and we stayed an extra night to catch the new Bond on the big screen and grab an awesome steak ready for the final push for home... J might have gone clothes shopping, but would deny it to whoever asked ;-)

The only other visitors in the port was a Swedish sail boat heading up the river, who wanted to swap his Rhoine book for our Saone one; J's too sentimental for that so we swapped lists of where we stopped - ours included available services and info on what is nearby, his was simply a list of places he'd stopped - cheers mate! Coming up the river with his little engine, at one point he was making half a knot in speed - that's 900m per hour!!! Gutting!

All in all, not a particularly cultural visit to Lyon, but we had a ball.