Topic: Lyon

Any tips?
food, museums, must see places, fleemarkets, recordshops

i'll be there 25th till 28th of april.

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Don't get stuck in the "periferique" in rush hour: will take you hours... but never been inside the city myself

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baz wrote:

Don't get stuck in the "periferique" in rush hour: will take you hours... but never been inside the city myself

hehe, we're going by plane, should be ok..

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you're playing there ?

5 (edited by raoul 2009-04-21 10:44:09)

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Agence Internationale wrote:

you're playing there ?

nope, just some time out with my woman.
i would love to play in france, but i guess i have to work the connections.

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I only have been stuck in the "periferique" in rush hour once too.
But as far as I know, Lyon is kind of the food capital of france. So take a good food related dictionary with you and prepare yourself for some nice feasts.

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yes, Lyon is the heart of the classic french cuisine
but for more tips, i'm like other people here: only passed by the ring several times, with or without jams...

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Lyon is pretty depressing to go on holiday no?

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yeah, I would go a little bit more south personally: to the river Drome and the Ardeche : really pritty, river worn mountain like landscape with nice little streams and lots of green and not unimportant: nice wine houses smile

but that's completely different from a city of course.

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Squadra Smackos wrote:

Lyon is pretty depressing to go on holiday no?

i don't expect so, have you been there?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Plan-Lyon-Metro-Tramway.svg/600px-Plan-Lyon-Metro-Tramway.svg.png
http://oregonabroad.ous.edu/images/france/france_vieux%20lyon.jpg
http://www.travel-france-vacation.com/south-riviera-france/rhone-alpes/rhone/lyon/lyon-pictures/lyons-france
http://www.uq.edu.au/uqabroad/images/france/mcrae_b.lyon.jpg
http://www.a-taste-of-france.com/images/lyon-shop.jpg

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baz wrote:

yeah, I would go a little bit more south personally: to the river Drome and the Ardeche : really pritty, river worn mountain like landscape with nice little streams and lots of green and not unimportant: nice wine houses smile

but that's completely different from a city of course.

well i used to go to the Provence many years ago, also very nice. Now i'm quite curious about Lyon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon

12 (edited by raoul 2009-04-21 13:26:19)

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http://wikitravel.org/upload/shared//8/85/Greenhouses.jpg

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hey, looks nice ideed, but i bet the photo of the fleemarket did it for you wink loved those french fleemarkets: always strange things and of course records!
Let us know how it was smile

why don't you go over queensday btw? (I should go till after 29 tongue)

14 (edited by raoul 2009-04-21 13:43:36)

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baz wrote:

hey, looks nice ideed, but i bet the photo of the fleemarket did it for you wink

actually it is a gift from my beloved, but she took my love for fleemarkets into consideration choosing that location big_smile

baz wrote:

loved those french fleemarkets: always strange things and of course records!
Let us know how it was smile

why don't you go over queensday btw? (I should go till after 29 tongue)

ahh, 4 days is a very nice unexpected surprise break before 2 weeks finland and 1 week spain later in the year big_smile
this was totally unplanned, for me anyway. you can imagine my pleasant surprise !
EDIT: and thinkabout it: fleemarket / queensday -> queensday is the biggest freekin fleemarket in the world...

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you should find lots of library's in lyon

Vlam Aan

16 (edited by Squadra Smackos 2009-04-21 14:08:13)

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raoul wrote:
Squadra Smackos wrote:

Lyon is pretty depressing to go on holiday no?

i don't expect so, have you been there?

Yeah i've been there but I didn't see all that stuff on the pictures, it was just the general atmosphere that strikes me as depressing...but I was in the wrong place probably...so never mind my remark it was totally out of the blue mumbling ; )

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Squadra Smackos wrote:
raoul wrote:
Squadra Smackos wrote:

Lyon is pretty depressing to go on holiday no?

i don't expect so, have you been there?

Yeah i've been there but I didn't see all that stuff on the pictures, it was just the general atmosphere that strikes me as depressing...but I was in the wrong place probably...so never mind my remark it was totally out of the blue mumbling ; )

i will report back on whether you should revise your view, or try again

@Kuczera:
i hope so, there's a few i'm after...
but i'm going there to relax so i won't stress about finding any records

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raoul wrote:

ahh, 4 days is a very nice unexpected surprise break before 2 weeks finland and 1 week spain later in the year big_smile
this was totally unplanned, for me anyway. you can imagine my pleasant surprise !
EDIT: and thinkabout it: fleemarket / queensday -> queensday is the biggest freekin fleemarket in the world...

you and your hard life wink

have lots of fun you two!