A colleague recommended I go and explore la croix-rousse area of Lyon so on Saturday I set out to have a look. There are plenty of traboules there so I wanted to trabouler un peu.
La croix-rousse was home to the canuts – Lyon silk weavers. I need a better guide book but it appears the canuts protested by coming down the Montée de la Grand Cote on more than one occasion.
There are plenty of hidden passageways here – traboules – but they are so well hidden, I couldn’t find them.
I did find this loving-looking chocolate shop. So I bought a big brioche aux pralines and asked if it was a Lyonnais speciality.
Mais bien sur, monsieur.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 
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