Lyon

Yesterday I took to the train out to Lyon for what I had planned to be a combination of sightseeing, shopping, and eating. There was an accident on the tram line from CERN, so it took me scrambling around the city on 3 different buses to get to the train station, but I got there, and then I got to Lyon.

All I accomplished was the sightseeing. Literally every store that I had researched visiting was closed. So was the giant indoor gourmet food market. So was 90% of the city.

We all know that Europeans go on vacation for most of August, but where do they go? Obviously not other cities in Europe…it was a ghost town. Handwritten paper signs in windows are all you get — each of the places I was so excited about has a website, all of those sites were researched, and none of them mentioned closures.

So I visited churches — 3 of them. Two were very 12th-13th century gothic, and one was….not 😛

Loot!

To carry on with yesterday’s theme, I have LOOT!

Thomas, my amazing amazing Thomas, got me a GREAT anniversary gift:

Doing nothing

This weekend, I have done NOTHING 🙂 I went to the grocery store, but that was it. And it was wonderful!

My psychosis is that I had to remind myself at least 3 times that it doesn’t matter if someone at home gets upset that I lost an opportunity for sightseeing. Even if someone gets upset, it’s unlikely they’d say anything. I kept trying to make up excuses: “It’s going to rain”, “Thomas will wake up soon”, “I might get email from work”. I told this to Thomas on facebook chat and he said “I want you to sit and relax today”, so then I felt better 😛

Heure d’Orgue

Every summer in Geneva there are free organ and carillon concerts at St. Peter’s Cathedral. So I took myself downtown today 🙂

CERN has its own tram stop, at the end of one of the lines. It’s only about 20 minutes into the city, to the big train station near the river. And literally right across all the tram lines from the station is Geneva’s main catholic church.

 

Samedi ensoleillé en France

It’s SATURDAY 😀 I slept in and did not work all day, ha!

I did my dishes and the laundry though, is that working? I also went shopping. I did NOT go back to the “hypermarché” where I shopped last week since I needed more than just food — it was like Walmart on Black Friday, folks. People were so piled up at the checkouts they stretched a third of the way down the aisles. I obviously did something wrong with my produce when I was there because the clerk started yelling at me, and when I told her I didn’t speak French she just tossed my produce in her trash can and scanned the rest of my things. WHO KNOWS.