We went on a trip to Antibes. We saw boats:

A beach:

The world’s biggest word search:

People eating out in the late October heat:

But once again, Lyon wasn’t far away:

Halloween is coming.

But actually we are in Nice.

We’ve taken a little holiday to the Côte d’Azur but still there are reminders of Lyon.

In Nice, not just a big lion but also this:

But why is that a reminder of Lyon?

Well remember this? The big statue in Place des Terreaux?

And who made the Statue of Liberty?

Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi.

Vous vous souvenez de ça?

Alors j’ai trouvé une nouvelle carte de la France sur le sac du supermarché Carrefour.

Et qu’est ce que c’est ça au dessus de Lyon?

Un accordion? Mais pourquoi?

It is if the chocolate shops are anything to go by.

This weekend in the centre of Lyon there was another braderie and this one was a biggie.

Lots of shops were selling discounted goods. In Place des Jacobins it was all about the plants.

Then there was a food and drink area. It was nice to stand in the sun and have a Corsican style pulled-veal roll.

And a local beer.

As it’s mid-October it must be time for the festival des courges encore une fois.

Parc de la Tête d’Or houses a huge variety of squashes of all colours and sizes to add a real autumnal feel to the place.

There are also plenty of games for les gones to enjoy.

Like last year some of them made their way home with us.

As Euronews presses on with its new operating model – interviews for new roles have taken place and our Spanish language team are about to move to Madrid – we are back in the news with the unions continuing to be unhappy with the new owners and their plan.

You can read more about it in Le Monde here.

I know Euronews management disagrees strongly with this account but I feel I should refrain from commenting . However I will highlight something I disagree with.

Describing the Green Cube as a high-tech building seems a bit far-fetched.

This is how we are attempting to tackle our current pigeon problem.

Also some of the comments on a similar article in LyonMag are a bit mean.

Not the greatest photo, but I saw my first kestrel in Lyon today.

Buzzards by the bucketload but kestrels, not so much.

And I learnt a new word in French – une crécerelle.

Feels like a good time to quote my favourite poem – the Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins. – which contains French words.

I caught this morning morning’s mignon.

Kingdom of daylight’s dauphin

Gerard Manley Hopkins