Our Day in Lyon

After the rain last night and the forecast for more rain today, we were thrilled to wake up to a morning with no rain! Since we basically only have one full day in Lyon, we decided to split up in the morning to see different things.

Dave, Steve and Greg went off to the Musee Lumiere, a museum about the invention early cinema. The Lumiere brothers got started with producing the prototype of films in the late 1800's.




Meanwhile, Andrew, Diana, Mike, and I headed off to Parc de la Tete d'Or, a huge city park that was highly rated online. The guys figured out some good ways for us to navigate - we looked up directions on our IPad and then Mike takes a photo of the directions on his phone.

We walked through the park for about an hour only getting to a fraction of it - went to the conservatory and then to part of the zoo.
















We then all took various buses and metros across town to meet at the Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization. Lyon is the site of an important Roman Empire City and in addition to the museum with lots of artifacts unearthed in Lyon, there are the remains of several Roman amphitheaters.

The walk up to the museum took us through the old part of the city with it's very steep, narrow, cobble-stoned streets. The museum sits at the top of a hill that looks out over the city - once again, the decent weather helped us really enjoy the sights.