Café gourmand encore

Remember café gourmand? Here is another example for you to enjoy.

Comment est-ce qu’on sait qu’on habite en France?

Nothing says I live in France more than this, in my opinion:

A little green square of paper on my windscreen

It is our proof of insurance. I followed the instructions and stuck it on my pare-brise. And now I feel like we have truly arrived.

And then I went from this green square:

To this one.

Eglisette à Lyon

Regardez cette eglise au coeur de Lyon.

C’est toute petite.

Je ne sais pas si elle est jamais ouverte.

Maintenant on parle

Not sure that works in French but a Sunday stroll to the market on the banks of the Saône resulted in a nice pair of earrings for Cath and this beauty of a book for me.

I’ve been looking for something like it for a while and here it was for an absolute bargain.

J’aime bien le nom de cet oiseaux – il s’appelle hawfinch en Anglais

One of the herons that escaped me in the Camargue

And this one is only en Camargue – where I saw it – and près de Lyon!

And I found these timbres inside – making it even more of a bargain!

Enfin, à la piscine

So it was finally time to don the obligatory tiny trunks and go for a swim in Lyon.

These should be small enough for French rules

I booked two tickets to the temporary summer outdoor pool in Parc de la Tete d’Or which is erected for two months in the velodrome. So it was a return to the site of Cameron Norrie’s ATP win but this time for a swim.

When we got there it turned out to be more of a giant paddling pool. Very shallow the whole length of it and with people playing all across it. I managed five lengths.

But it was a very nice way to cool off. And the surrounding area was nicely laid out for a spot of relaxing.

And of course there was a buzzard overhead

C’est quoi ça?

Qu’est-ce que c’est ce truc sur la Saône?

It’s all part of the Between the Rhône and Saône festival this weekend.

Looks like there will be plenty of drinking spots

I spotted some graffiti

Near work.

C’est pas gentil ça.

Views from my office – an occasional series

This green and yellow boat caught my eye – different from the usual craft on the Saône.

Seventeen swans swim in the Saône and a stripling aussi

My rentré to work today and a lunchtime riverside stroll with a colleague produced a couple of surprises.

A bank of swans on the Saône – 17 of them in fact. Dix-sept cygnes.

And then a teenager – not quite dix-sept ans – but jumping off the underside of the bridge and swimming to the side.

He told us it wasn’t too cold.

Les vacances en famille

Right, look away now if you don’t want to see some holiday photos from our week in Bouc-Bel-Air and trips out with Cath’s sister Sally, nieces Hanna and Lauren and great niece Alma.