Well, I got back to Japan from my three week trip to Europe yesterday, so I’m a bit jet-lagged (especially as I was subjected to no less than three flights in a row!), but here we go with the first of many shots I took there. Yes, back to ‘live’ daily entries and not that scheduled rubbish 
I took a total of 2,200 photos (which isn’t many for me), and as I started to glance through them tonight, this is the first one that I thought merited processing.
So, probably these are going to come out chronologically, mirroring my journey, so you can get a sense of where I went.
This is the symbol of the French city of Lyon, a place much overlooked on the tourist itineraries, but it’s a large place with a lot to offer.
It was baking hot when I arrived on August 21st – 40℃, dry as dust and very windy, which I hadn’t expected.
That evening, despite being tired, I had a quick look round and found this cheerful edifice in the large, but empty Place Bellecour, surrounded on either side by enormous letters spelling out ‘only’ and ‘Lyon.’ That’s quite a neat advertising slogan for the city, but a little shocking to see the linguistically proud French allowing this blatant piece of Anglo-Saxon to sully their second city
You can see a bigger version of this photo here.
