Remembering my arrival in Lyon

When I was preparing for my trip, Ken (who is a UConn MBA student in Hartford that I had never met before) sent out an e-mail asking if anyone wanted to travel with him. Thanks to the Internet, I found out that he is a triathlete so he would probably make a good travel companion and said yes!

We met at the TGV station at Charles De Gaulle and took the high speed train to Lyon. Ken is so laidback that he didn't notice that my flight was delayed 3 hrs.
We had a great time trying to figure out all of the ticket machines for the different kinds of trains.

After checking into the dorm on Sat evening, we made our way to Flunch and Carrefour for groceries before everything shut down. We had to go uphill, in the mud, over cobblestones -- ugh!

On Sunday, I was certain that we would be stuck in our rooms forever but Ken knocked on my door with another UConn classmate, John, and John's girlfriend. Lizzy was French!! And she had a car!!!! I was soooo excited. We went into Old Lyon and had brunch at this restaurant. We ate in an alcove room in the basement. It was heaven!

Here is a bird's eye view on Google maps --
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ecully+france&ie=UTF8&ll=45.761668,4.827229&spn=0.000538,0.001621&t=h&z=20