9 février 2009, Lyon

MONDAY
We began the day, heading over the Rhône and came upon a typical French market.

A promotional truck for a radio station, it reads qui n’écoute pas n’est pas Lyonnais (those who don’t listen aren’t Lyonnais (a resident of Lyon)).

* In French, a common way of making a city name into either an adjective or noun is by adding -ais at the end of the city name. For example: Montluçon → Montluçonnais, Nantes → Nantais, Marseille → Marseillais, etc…

note the location of the car

Musée des Beaux Arts in Lyon. The lady at the museum let Leslie and I get in for free, I am not sure why, but I tried paying and she wouldn't let me. The musuem was very nice, especially for free.

"L'Adoration de l'Enfant" by Jacquelin de Montluçon, a painter that came out of Montluçon during the Middle Ages.

Roman ruins

La basilique de Notre-Dame de Fourvière