I opted for orange juice instead of coffee. Not sure they understand decaf.
We walked around for a little while and then returned to the hotel to get our stuff together for the day. On the walk back to the hotel we passed the French Cooking School.
Paul Boguse is a well known chef here in France. He is from Lyon and most chefs train in his school.
We walked from the hotel to the Funiculaire to take us up to the Basilique of Notre Dame de Fouviere. I posted a picture of this the last time we were in Lyon.
This time we visited it. What a place. I have never seen so much mosaic tile work in my life. It is beautiful.
The outside of the Basilique. This is not the pretty side.
The pulpit with a marble statue behind it. The statue is not on the pulpit but the wall behind. Notice the kneelers. Hard on the knees. No pads. These French are tough.
Another beautiful marble statue.
The beautiful ceiling of the Basilique.
A close up of the ceiling.
And one of many mosaic tile wall art.
More statues.
The front altar.
There must be over 100 of this flower on the floor. The entire floor is tiled.
The view from the Basilique. You can see most of Lyon. What I like about these cities is that there are no high rises. You do see two in the distance. The one on the left is still being built. The one on the right is a hotel. But not in the center city.
From the Basilique you can see the tour Metalique. This is a twin but smaller of the Eiffel Tower. Now it is a media tower. You can no longer go up.
We then returned to the old city and walked around for a while. We did get to see the outside of the Cathedral of St. Jean but it was closed so we did not have a chance to go inside.
The Cathedral St. Jean. Sorry we did not get to go inside.
We did stop at one cafe to have lunch but here in Lyon, most cafes do not open for lunch until 12 noon. So we got up and walked around some more. Finally stopped at a cafe that was serving lunch and we each had a bowl of onion soup.
We both opted for beer instead of wine. Needed fluids.
Walked back to the hotel. By this time my back was really hurting. But I made it back without having to get a cab. We did stop once to sit and rest.
Back at the hotel we napped and then doing some catch up stuff. We have to get up early in the morning for the train to England via Paris. So we need to be ready to go. Visiting Lyon has been nice but here in this part of France, most stores are closed Sunday and Monday. So no shopping for me. I think this was Bob's plan all along.
Dinner tonight is at La Tassee. I found this place on the internet. Hope it is good. Will let you all know later.
Well I did good. The dinner tonight was wonderful. One of the best dinners we have ever experienced. We had reservations for 7:30 but headed to the restaurant at 7pm. It was just around the corner from the hotel so we were early but they were ready for us. Seems that here they give you the table for the night. So how long you stay is up to you. Our dinner took two hours. Great slow pace so that you could digest the meal as you went along.
We both had the Pistachio hot sausage and the Stake fish cooked in a browned butter.
This is the ice cream dish that Bob had for dessert.
And this is the Pistachio dessert I had. Boy was it good. Only ate half of it.
Then we walked back to the hotel and packed as we are leaving Lyon early in the morning. Taking the fast train to Paris and change there for London. Then on to Southampton for the night. QM2 on Wednesday.
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