Jared Bloch
Jewish quarters in Lyon - Photo ©Jared Bloch
Geneva, Switzerland – It’s officially summer and time for weekend getaways! And at one-and-a-half hours south, Lyon is a great shoestring evasion from Geneva.
Stuff your backpack with a toothbrush and a camera and catch a train at Geneva’s train station, Gare Cornavin. Change trains at Bellegarde, or get the local Poste bus from there to Lyon.
The ride itself is a panoramic plunge into the Rhone river valley, so don’t nap.
Make sure and grab an espresso on the way as the central train station resembled a gladiatorial contest on two recent visits.
More than mere metaphor, the city actually represented the ancient Gallic capital of Western Europe and boasts extensive Roman ruins on the edge of the old city.
Old settlement
Jared Bloch
I forgot how much I love to drive, and what I love about driving, or is it just the road itself…
Where the Road and the Sky Collide... Road to Nowhere
Driving through Southern France on our way to Madrid, through the Basque Country, and two days later returning through North eastern Spain, I see glimpses of the Road in a European setting; rugged hills breaking up the monotony of endless townships combined with vast spaces between settlements and an emptiness unblotted, or too immense to be paved over by humanity – and still it is the road that has brought us here.