On a lazy Saturday afternoon we spent half an hour watching rival sporting events taking place in Place du Maréchal Lyautey.

One group were playing Molkky- a game involving skittles and throwing stick that we bought our eldest son for his birthday. He confirms it is a very addictive game.

The other group were playing the more traditional French pastime of pétanque. Both games seemed keenly contested.

Everyone’s favourite chocolatier and tea room Bernachon is celebrating its 70th anniversary.

That’s a lot of chocolate to have been sold and devoured by customers in Lyon and Paris.

According to the website, it all began in 1953, when Maurice Bernachon wanted to transform raw cocoa beans into chocolate.

He did a pretty good job and I highly recommend a trip to Lyon’s most famous chocolate shop.

This week it was the turn of the All Blacks to make their presence known in Lyon.

The pubs were full of rugby fans – well actually they were watching the Ryder Cup.

The game went well for the fans. Very well. The fans will be sticking around as their next game is on Thursday against Uruguay.

We had never been to the Sucrière before so we decided a trip to the vintage market was a way to break this duck.

La Sucrière is an old sugar warehouse but is now an events space.

We left empty-handed but it was nonetheless a fun day out.

Lyon is filling up with Welsh and Australians ahead of tonight’s big clash in the rugby World Cup.

We bumped into this couple enjoying a beer before lunch at Brasserie des Brotteaux – excellent choice.

These two snazzily dressed Australians were on the T1 tram.

It’s safe to say the town centre was full of red and yellow.

There is a fanzone in Place Bellecour so we went to have a look.

En bas de chez nous il y a une boulangerie.

Elle a changé de proprétaire et apres quelques semaines de renovations elle a ouvert aujourd’hui.

Alors il faut acheter quelque chose, non?

Sur les peniches au bord de la Saône, les propriétaires des peniches sont en train de préparer leur bateaux pour l’hiver.

Ce couple travaillait sur Etienne avec de la peinture et des brosses.

As Nathan was in town and keen to see a football match we went for the first time to the Groupama Stadium to see Les Gones – the boys in Lyonnaise dialect.

It’s been a difficult start to the season for OL – bottom of the league, new owners, their manager Laurent Blanc (great French pronunciation guide example) sacked.

What better way to get back to winning ways than against newly-promoted Le Havre?

The pre-match build up was fantastic, the ultras in the Kop Virage Nord were very impressive with their choreographed singing and clapping.

However the match was a disappointment. It was clearly a basement battle. Lyon were bereft of ideas. The sooner new manager and old boy Fabio Grosso starts the better.