Two rivers in Lyon

Lyon is at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône Rivers. The Rhône (first photo) is the larger and longer of the two. In Switzerland, where it comes from, some of the locals call it the Rotten River — not because it is rotten in the English sense of the Read More …

To Lyon by train

From March 2012 to the beginning of the corona virus pandemic in 2020, there was a direct high-speed train connection (only once a day, but still) from Frankfurt via Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, Belfort and Besançon to Lyon, and then on to Avignon, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, all without changing trains. Before Read More …

Villa Lumière in Lyon

Auguste Lumière (1862-1954) and his brother Louis Lumière (1864-1948) became very wealthy in their early twenties thanks to their invention of a machine that could mass-produce photographic gelatin dry-plates. Their factory in Lyon, France, quickly became one of the largest in Europe and their dry-plates became a best-selling product because Read More …