Our Lyon visit was broken up into a few parts with the main reason for first night there being to drop Matthew off at the train station so he could make his way home. After leaving him we made our way to the Bejoulas area which is famous for their wine (similar to every other area in France, I'm beginning to find). We spent the day making our way to various small towns in the area before stopping for the night in Bourg en Bresse, France's chicken capital. This was displayed proudly by well decorated chicken statues displayed around the city.
On our way back to Lyon we stopped at a cobblestone covered old town called Perouges.
That pretty much concluded our tour of small French towns so we made our way back to Lyon which has been proclaimed by our guide books as well as the owners of the previous hotel as the food capital of France. That night for dinner I tried some of the Lyonisse specialties - Salad Lyonisse and Quenelles. Although I didn't actually know exactly what either of these were until they were set in front of me I definitely enjoyed both. The salad was pretty simple, served with a poached egg, bacon, and tomatoes and the quenelle turned out to be like a French version of gefilte fish served with a shellfish sauce and finished under a broiler.
Our last two days in Lyon were spent exploring the city, a couple of museums, and a huge city park. The most interesting place we visited was the Miniture Museum. Think of the museum of an entire gallery of super fancy diorama. Remember, those scenes we constructed in a shoe box in elementary school? But as opposed to my fourth grade artistic ability (which hasn't improved much since then) these were very good and life-like.
This morning the rest of the family left to go back home and I am currently on my way to Nice for a few days to explore the Riviera!
The ancient town is called Perouges.
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