Month: October 2008

This last day we started easily as Christine had to pack and bring her luggage to my room. It's go-slow day, but we launched ourselves finally on the Quest to L'Ouest for napkins.L'Ouest--the West--had a small boutique that sold all of the four brasserie's napkin styles, and we were collecting. We'd started with Le Nord,… Continue reading Lyon–Day 6 →

In the hallway of our hotel by the elevator, Christine had seen an intriguing modern art poster. With her encouragement and a morning of train hassles, we finally got out of Lyon. We went to St. Etienne to see the Modern Art Museum, a low-slung building set on a hill over this industrials city (of… Continue reading Lyon-Day 5 →

First stop of the day is back to the Paul Smith store. We'd seen some fun stuff there, and after thinking about it a night, decided to act on it. As I was finishing my purchase, the owner disappeared around to the back room, came out with something in his hands and cut off the… Continue reading Lyon–Day 4 →

We leave our windows open at night to get the cool fresh air (the A/C has been disabled for the season) and every morning the street washers wake us up. A large truck slowly moves down the street as two men wield firefighter-sized hoses, sweeping the street with water in front of them, spraying some… Continue reading Lyon–Day 3 →

This little scene--of two molded plastic chairs, a little table with a pot of flowers on top--is directly across from my hotel window. When we went on our first trip to France, so many years ago, we calculated that we'd eaten outside more times than inside--a lovely habit epitomized by this promise of a meal… Continue reading Lyon–Day 2 →

We're off!(I added to this on Monday morning after the garbage man woke me up.)But not too fast. Initial flight to Munich was delayed 3 1/2 hours--at least we got a free dinner out of it at one of the illustrious restaurants at LAX (courtesey of Lufthansa's meal vouchers). The reason why we were delayed… Continue reading Lyon–Day 1 →