Our Mid Life Crisis Gap Year: She's Cooking, He's Exploring

As Lyon is seen as the food capital of France, Lesley really wanted to do some cooking classes here, so today was her first opportunity. Now I am not going to steal her thunder as I am sure that she will write a post or two about her cooking classes.

So we started the day off together, I walked with her up the hill to her cooking class at Plum Cooking, halfway up the hill towards Croix-Rousse. I then continued to the top of the hill to have a look around. After wandering through a few streets I stumbled across a small fresh food market that had some beautifully fresh looking produce....I wonder if this is the food market Lesley will be coming to tomorrow as part of her cooking class?

Very Fresh Food

A short walk away I found an English pub, surely with a name like this it has to have an English owner!!!

Got To Be English Owners

I then headed back towards the apartment, dropped in to the local cafe for a quick Expresso....for someone that barely drank coffee before arriving in Europe, I just love a good strong short black coffee now!!

Un Expresso, S'il Vous Plait

I made my way down to just past Place Bellecour taking as many photos as I could on the way.

Great Wall Clock, Crap Graffiti

The Fountain In Place De Jacobins

Just East of Place Bellcour is the Place Antonin Poncet on the banks of the Rhone river. Here I came across the living sculpture, "The Flower Tree", it is one of many symbols of Lyon. The sculpture was actually created by Korean artist Jeong-Hwa Choi and is made of stainless steel and painted with polyester resin and measures 6 meters with a total of 85 flowers of polyester resin......the photo hardly does it justice...it looks great!!