Lyon

The first trip was to the bright lights of Lyon, a beautiful city located north east of Clermont Ferrand. JJ (Emmas boyfriend) went to university there and we stayed with his friends Jacquo and Sophie in their apartment and met various friends of theirs.

Lyon has a fantastic bike hire system so we grabbed three and toured around the city, taking in numerous churches, sculptures, buildings etc from various eras, as well as visits to cafes for esspresso and pastrie galore!! Lyon is apparently the culinary capital of france so we enjoyed a nite out at a restaurant with friends and then a visit to the museum and a stroll round the city...

Sunday we headed to the countryside to dine on Frogs Legs.... kind of tasty but a little disconcerting when you can see the entire body of the frog!! Ran into a few more nettles on a walk round the lakes/marshland in the area but managed to escape them relatively unscathed.