So we picked up a hire car which we'll be driving around the countryside of France for 2 weeks. It's not too bad driving on the other side of the road and they seem to have upgraded us to a car with a gps! (And she has an Aussie accent!). The tolls on the motorways are pretty harsh - we paid €30 something (about A $45) to go from Paris to Lyon (about 4 hours drive) but save a lot of time. We thought we were in trouble at the entry point, I had to lean right out the window to get a ticket and our push-button car, which turns off the engine whenever you stop at lights etc, decided not to start again! We finally started it again, but it was a nervous start.
When we got to Lyon, we went to the Lumiere museum. The Lumiere brothers were inventors and their main claim to fame was inventing motion pictures. It was very interesting. Another museum we went to was a miniatures and movie props museum - who knew Lyon was a movie-making scene!
There are these great tunnels called traboules whicb connect some streets. Apparently they were created so that the textile merchants could move their fabric without it getting damaged from the weather.
I like Lyon because it's much more relaxed than Paris, still has a great metro system (which includes a funicular up a mountain to see a beautiful cathedral and Roman ruins), as well as two rivers which look wonderful at night.
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