Lyon: How to spend 48 hours in France's gastronomic capital

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

L is for Lyon. In this episode, you'll hear about my experiences after spending 48 hours in Lyon with Lovely Lina.

There's also some local insights from Caroline Connor, who does wine tastings in Lyon, and runs the website and social media accounts by the name of Wine Dine Caroline.

You can find more from her here.

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The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson.

Click here for our walking tours of Paris.

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0:00.0	There has been an outrageous oversight on the Earful Tower podcast for six plus years now,
0:07.3	and I've been looking for a chance to rectify it.
0:10.6	Why, oh why, have we never even touched on one of the biggest cities in France?
0:18.3	Thankfully, this city begins with the exact letter that we're up to in this alphabet season, the A-B season,
0:26.0	and I figured what better way to give it the nod that it deserves than to head down two and a half hours on the train from Paris
0:34.1	with my wife, who is coincidentally called lovely Lena, double L, to check out this
0:43.8	most beautiful location and share it with you all. Of course, L is for Lyon. Or as the tourism board,
0:52.2	they would say, only Lyon. And I have to agree.
0:56.2	Here comes some music from Pressmaxon. So that song called the Angel of Lyon, I'll talk about that again in a second.
1:25.4	But first I want to introduce you, Lena.
1:27.4	Well, thank you. Welcome back to, is it your first time for the... I'll talk about that again in a second, but first I want to introduce you, Lena.
1:28.5	Well, thank you.
1:33.3	Welcome back. Is it your first time for the, or you did B for Biev, I think, as well?
1:38.7	Yeah. Yeah, but it's been a while. It's been a little break.
1:46.0	Anyone who doesn't know who Lena is, it's my wife. She joins me on some of these episodes, including this one where we went down to Lyon. And I think we need to talk about something really important first. How do we pronounce
1:52.2	Lyon? Just like a race car. Yeah. You know? Don't you think?
1:59.0	Niyon. You don't say Leon.
2:02.3	You say Leon.
2:02.9	Lyon.
2:04.1	That's right.
2:07.8	And now that we're saying this, it feels like we've done that joke on the podcast before.
2:09.9	Probably, but who's counting? No one's counting.
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