Lyon - Wednesday, March 27, 2013

We arrived at our hotel about 3:00PM local time and immediately took a nap.  Not supposed to do that since it is recommended that you start to live on local time right away, but tired is tired.  When we awoke, we looked on the Internet for good restaurants and discovered there was a good one just around the corner. Now that is luck!  It was pretty early for dinner in France but we again were lucky since it is a brasserie which has pretty flexible dining times.  Brasserie Georg was founded in1886.  It is very large with an elegant interior, brews it's own beer and specializes in fish.  What more can you ask!  And the beer was excellent as was the Choucroute Pechure made with assorted fish.  Harley had the daily special which provided a huge slab of meat - good but not as good as the choucroute.  And as has been true at every restaurant so far, the bread is first rate such that we have been stashing some in my handbag to serve as the next day's breakfast.  We have continued this minor theft since we have not yet gotten up early enough for breakfast so the bread holds us over until lunch.  I am writing this on Saturday and will note,  so that I don't have to describe every meal, that we have eaten at Brasserie Georg twice more and H arley had the Choucroute Pecheur the second visit and it was as good as the first time.

We went to sleep early Wednesday evening and managed about ten hours of rest but still felt the jet lag Thursday morning.

Near our hotel is a major junction for trams and subways.  Crossing that you reach a pleasant park, Parc Carnot and on the other side of that is a semi-pedestrian street, rue Victor Hugo lined with shops of all sorts and at the end of that street you come to Place Bellecour.  Here we decided we were tired and ready for lunch so we turned around and unimaginatively made ou way back to Brasserie Georg.

After lunch it was nap time again.  After a couple of hours of sleep we thought it would be interesting to visit a new neighborhood west of the Soane River.  So at abou five thirty we again left the hotel starting out on the same route as earlier but turning left at the end of Parc Carnot.