Day 1- Drive through France- Lyon

We took a 10 day driving trip to the south of France with Howard's Mother and Sister (Mary). Most of the trip we were in a villa on the southern coast. You can see from the map what our route was (in red). The other route (in blue) to the west was our trip to Normandy that is described in another post.

Here's a map of the Cote de Azur. The "X" marks where our villa was located.

It is a long drive from Brussels to the southern coast of France so we planned an overnight stop in Lyon. Lyon is situated on an island with two rivers running on either side and the old part of Lyon is on a hill above the island.


We didn't have much time to explore the city and we had rain while we were there but it was a very nice town. It is a bit like a smaller Paris because of the architecture. Here's the view from our balcony.

There were many beautiful squares and fountains.

The setting was beautiful with the two rivers and there was a festival while we were there that was a reenactment of a historical event with all sorts of costumes and pagentry.