Visiting
Lyon, France/ Carlos Pueblo
Two reasons
for me to arrange visiting Lyon, France, first, Helene Billand
of Rodez,
France draw a map for me at a hostel in Buenos Aires to recommend
southern
France from Barcelona, Spain to Rodez,
then split to Bordeaux on the
west and
Lyon to the east. I showed the scratch to a German senior Jurgen Kurz
of Freiburg,
Germany and he also recommended his hometown on the bank of
River Rhine
northwest of Lyon. Secondly, a Chinese spoken language prose, the
spring of
Lyon by Mei Su, was in my mind all the time when the city was brought
up, a text
in my 7th grade language class. She mentioned very much in details
for
the summer
chore at a vineyard when she was studying in Lyon during 1921-1925.
I didn’t
have the opportunity to visit any of the vineyard in Lyon, instead, I did
march
several miles along River Rhine and River La Saone. I was taken by an airport
light rail to a city center, Gare Part-Dieu
Villette, passing through several residential
area of this
half a million metropolitan city, a lovely French suburban. Then, it was
a raining
day at the metro station, I changed to a blue line all the way across Rhine
to the end
station of Gare d’Oullins. The small inn was about 10 minute walk away;
however, I
was lost and took almost two hours to reach my destination.
My room is
facing River Rhine and there is a busy two lane highway between. I could
view the
might Rhine from my room and clearly see the container port of Lyon. I could
also see a beautiful church up to a hill far
away through my binocular, and later I found
out the
famous La Basilique de Fourviere and decided to march to this cathedral on the
next
morning.
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