Today we had planned to do some walking around and seeing the
city. Nic made some bacon and eggs and I had my protein shake and a cereal bar
for breakfast. We then headed out just after 9 am. We walked from Croix Rousse
to Vieux Lyon, passing through the market that I visited with the American
students.
Once in Vieux Lyon we went to the museum of film and
miniatures which was really cool, seeing props/costumes that were used in
various movies and miniature sets, most of which contained an insane amount of
detail, even at 1/12th of the
scale. Some sets even had individually hand painted mini plates or frescoes or
blown glass bottles or serviettes. The museum itself was housed in one of old
buildings in Vieux Lyon so it was spread across 3 levels and various rooms.
They also had some scenes from the movie “Perfume” and one amazing fact is that
for the movie 13000 bottles were blown in total by one small polish bottle
making company.
We then ambled around, looking at the different shops, stopping
in one to buy some artisan jam (similar sort of award as MOF but for the jams)
and some terrines. We stopped in a chocolaterie which had a really cool display
of flavoured syrups (not sure if any were alcoholic) on a mirror on the floor
to resemble a bowling alley so the whole thing had a really cool effect.
We bought some sorbet, I had orange sanguine (blood orange)
which was flippen sick! Just as good as the pink grapefruit one I had before,
and Nic had the white peach which was
nice but was quite sweet so left your mouth feeling quite heavy still whereas
mine was almost like a sherbet doing a nice job of refreshing my palate.
For lunch we stopped at a bagel place and I had one with
just some Philly cream cheese and some NACHOS with cheese sauce. Nic had one
with Parma ham, goat’s cheese and honey (jambon cru, chevre et miel) and some
coleslaw. The place seemed very American inspired, targeting maybe a younger
market and reminded me a lot of the vibe of Clarkes in Brea Street, Cape Town.
They also had some Duffy beer there (beer from the Simpsons) but I didn’t try
it.
We then made our way back and by this time the streets were
now thronging with people...it seems town only gets busy from around 11am or
so.
The rest of the day was spent inside. For dinner I made
pasta with marguese, bolognaise sauce and brie. And a gin and tonic of course.
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