Old Town

Visited Old Town Lyon, across the Saone, this afternoon. Interesting:

-- Beautiful cathedral overlooking the city called Fourviere, features a gold statue of Mary on one of the towers

-- I ran into two ladies on one of the pathes behind the gardens there, and they were French Jehovah's witnesses. We established that we were all Christians, and they gave me a tract (featuring a racially diverse group of people on the cover).

-- I went to an interesting museum on Roman influence in Lyon. One of the Caesar's commissioned Lyon to be built when he needed to get the army busy because there was unrest, and he didn't want them aiding the uprisers. The museum is right next to the ampitheatre (above) created by two different Caesars (Hadrienwas one).

-- The host family is great. I don't understand most of what they say to each other and about half of what they say (slowly) to me, but dinner was a delicious salami and ham, french bread, salad, carrots & potatos, and a vanilla and sugary bread dessert from the Mediterranean.