Feeling slightly enclosed by the city's (ridiculously beautiful) roads and buildings, Ashleigh, Olivia and I set off on a mission: to find trees.
We stopped by the market, bought some fresh fruit, baguettes, & cheese, and then took the bus as far as we could go into the countryside northwest of Lyon! Following an ancient map from the 80s given to me my host ma, we walked along the road through several teeny tiny little villages made up of gorgeous french houses with immaculate gardens and views looking out over the river valley.
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| Walking up! You can't tell from the picture, but thats the Lyon skyline in the background. |
Somewhat randomly, we ran across a jazz band performance, a dog obedience school, a sweet tree fort, and a scary version of Epcot along the way.
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| Jazz band jammin' out in the middle of a pedestrian bridge over the Saone River. |
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| hahaha, dog school. |
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| awesome tree fort! |
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| Evil version of Epcot, which we actually found out is a french military base you're not supposed to take pictures of. Whoops - don't tell. |
We found a trail and hiked through fields and some forested areas across Mont Cindre, and then to Mont Thou! There were lots of Mountain bikers on the trail which made me really happy. Wish I could find someone to loan me their bike for a day! In all we were walking for about 5 hours...pretty impressive. I'm still tired. Its amazing how much ground you can cover by foot.
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| We felt kinda like we were in Pride and Prejudice. |
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| pretty! |
I can't wait until spring when everything will be green and beautiful! :-D
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