We left Nashville on May 24 headed to Paris……nice flight on Delta. Spent our arrival night at Hotel Saint Louis-Marais…..great location near Gare de Lyon to catch our train to Dijon the next morning. While waiting for our room to be readied we walked to Holybelly, a spot for breakfast in Paris for great service and food. Caught a train the next morning to Dijon, got settled in our airbnb and enjoyed taking the “owl walk’ through the old town. We stopped at the Maile and Edmond Fallot stores and sampled mustard….both were delicious. We spent the next day training to Beaune where we had a mustard factory tour and a tour planned through the hospices in Beaune. The mustard factory tour was bilingual though we felt that our French guide much preferred her French audience….her messages to them lasted twice as long as the messages to us…it seemed that more than once she chided the English crowd for not following her directions when she had failed to tell us what to do. In spite of her we enjoyed grinding mustard seeds to make our own mustard, seeing the techniques used and buying in their gift shop. Beaune is a lovely and charming town with the hospices in the center of it all. You cannot miss those spectacular colored tile roofs! We ate a delicious meal at SOUL KITCHEN that night in Beaune-if you go make certain you reserve a table ahead of time. We trained back to Dijon and got set to train the next day to Lyon for 2 nights. We had never been and were excited to experience the culinary capital of France.
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We arrived in Lyon to our airbnb and had a great location off of Victor Hugo blvd to walk the city. We took the first afternoon to see the basilica that sits on a hill overlooking Lyon……BEAUTIFUL. The church is gorgeous and the views from there are breathtaking. We enjoyed dinner that night at CARMELO’S, such an incredible meal. If you get a chance to eat there GO! Make a reservation as it fills up very quickly….the line of people without reservations was not moving very quickly and though we called only a few hours before eating we were so glad that we did. We took the next day to do a walking WW2 tour of resistance sites. Lyon was the capital of the resistance movement during the war and the tour was full of information. We were so impressed with the beauty and size of Lyon. We had no idea it was such a big city and that it had so much to offer. The spots to eat went on and on and on. It was an easy city for a newcomer to adjust to. An afternoon walk through the old city was delightful. We caught our train the next morning for Avignon where we would pick up our rental car and head to Gordes.