Lyon

Wow, it's been a long time!

Since I last posted, I travelled to Lyon for the second time, but this time it was with an Albion friend. What did we do? Walked and talked, sat in cafes and talked, watched breakdancers and talked...you get the picture. It was so nice to just see the city without an agenda. I have never been much of a museum fan and tours are nice sometimes, but my favorite thing to do when I go somewhere is just chill and see the city as a local.

We were very proud of our budgeting too. The train tickets were $30, the hostel we stayed in was $20 a night, including breakfast, and for the rest of our meals, we stopped at a supermarket and got cheese, baguettes, and a couple bottles of wine for $10. The cheese was probably not a good idea in retrospect. My reasoning was that the cheese is made up of more bacteria then I like to think about so it couldn't get any worse after a couple of days outside the fridge. Wrong, very wrong. By the second day, our room smelled so bad that we coulndt stand to stay in there for more than a couple of minutes. One of our cheeses was Rocquefort, which, sadly, had become a puddle of goo within the first couple of hours. Shamelessly, we still gobbled it down. Cheese tastes the same whether it is liquid or solid.

Next week, my friend and I will be going to Rome for 10 days. I'm sure I'll have lots of good stories from that too!

Ciao