Ever since I watched ‘The Tourist’ starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, I thought it would be cool to ‘arrive’ in Venice via water taxi. Speeding along, the wind and water spray in your hair…. So after two flights, one from Nice to Lyon and then onwards from Lyon to Venice, we are boarding the [...]
With no particular agenda in store for today, a bus trip around the city is in order, and our first stop, was not really something I had an interest in seeing because I saw plenty of ruins in Europe on my last trip. But we followed the other tourists who trudged off the bus and [...]
From Gare de Lyon, Paris, we board a train to Lyon, only a couple of hours away. We are travelling by TGV or ‘train a grande vitesse’, which simply means…very fast train. And that it is, there's barely any time to grab a coffee from the food cart before you arrive at Lyon Part Dieu Station. Lyon [...]