Monthly Archives: August 2017

About This Site – An Introduction

Travel And All… This site is not a Travel Guide, or a How To Guide, or a Ten Best Guide, although you may find some of those aspects interwoven within these posts and pages. This blog is essentially about us living our lives while travelling, slowly and deliberately, savoring each moment as it passes.

Some background to this site… We used to publish our blog on a different blogging platform but found that it was just too limiting for what we wanted to do, hence the reason we are now in the process of migrating all those posts to our own web site here Continue reading

Paris continues to captivate while it oozes charm and chic

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

Friday, 18 August 2017 to Thursday, 24 August 2017
Yesterday we arrived in Paris, thoroughly tired after negotiating busses and bus stops with poor signage and metros and metro stops with poor traveller facilities such as escalators to do the heavy lifting. Above expectations, we finally did arrive at our hotel safe and sound. So, of course we slept in this morning and got up just in time to go for breakfast.

Rain was forecast for Paris today and it sure delivered on its promise. As I drew the curtains aside I was met with a gray Paris with gray clouds clouding the sky. Rain was softly falling, sometimes increasing just a tad in intensity, it was great!  Continue reading

Friends came to visit us in Lyon, and then we moved to Paris

Musée des Confluences Lyon

Musée des Confluences Lyon

Friday, 11 August 2017 to Thursday, 17 August  2017
As you may recall, Estee and Dries rolled into town yesterday but we decided to give them the day off to recover from their trip from SA as well as the copious amounts of beer and such that was consumed last night. Continue reading

We got into traboule, then we got into more traboules, but we eventually found a way out

Théâtre gallo-romain on Fourvière hill

Théâtre gallo-romain on Fourvière hill

Friday, 4 August 2017 to Thursday, 10 August  2017
It was mid afternoon when we took the metro to Croix Rousse for supper, but of course it was way too early for that, we had less important things to do. Lyon is the silk capital of the Europe so a stay here would not be complete without a visit to one of its silk related museums. We chose the one closet to our selected restaurant for the evening which happened to be La Maison des Canuts (House of the Lyonnais silk workers). Continue reading

We tried to beat the oppressive heat with Paix Dieu, but it only made us Delirium Tremens

Cour d'Appel de Lyon at night

Cour d’Appel de Lyon at night

Friday, 28 July 2017 to Thursday, 3 August  2017
We looked from our lounge window towards the parking area of our apartment building where a young family was busy packing their van for the holidays, which obviously starts today… and we contemplated how cool it would be to go on holiday… Hmm… Okay. Continue reading