We caught the Flix bus from Annecy to Lyon and though the seats were a bit cramped, we no longer had to worry about porting luggages etc. I felt like I would do more Flix bus intercity trips in the future if I could.
Our 3 star hotel at Lyon was really cramped but it had a good location. We mainly visited Place Bellecour and Vieux Lyon. Originally we planned to have lunch at Place Bellecour and almost had it at a Chinese wanton shop but the French waitress was adamant that we had to either sit at the table that Mum felt would make everyone gawp at us because we were right in front of the menu or basically share a ‘table’ with the other 3 Chinese customers (it was a row of 3 tables that was jammed together into a big table of 6) when there was an entire row of free tables on the other side. Mum did not like that treatment so we eventually walked off after sitting down at the free table and had food from the supermarket as lunch. We went to Vieux Lyon after lunch but it felt like a waste of time to be honest. We had the Palme d’Or pizza for dinner and I ate most of it because Mum had no appetite. Overall, it was too salty.
Day 2 at Lyon was spent at Vienne. I think the highlight of this day was the quay and Cathédrale Saint-Maurice and then the rain cut the trip short such that even though I had already bought a return ticket at 5pm Mum decided we would buy new tickets on the spot to get out of the rain. And this is when I found out that I don’t need to prebook the Lyon to Vienne tickets at all because the return tickets bought on the day were exactly the same price as the tickets I bought online. Ah well. We bought something from the supermarket for dinner that day. I think by this point Mum was already down with the cold for many days and I caught mine on the first day in Annecy.
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