Well with my first visitor comes my first problems with the wondrous Velo's... Dad has arrived in Lyon, so I thought it would be a great idea to show him Lyon by bike. So, laden with a large picnic, we set off to find some bikes, and then the Parc Tete d'Or. Unfortunately, the first bike station had it's touch screen smashed, the second one only had one operational bike, the third one again only had one operational bike which we decided to take, then back to the second station where the one operational bike had then been hired, and then a short treck to find the 4th one where we successfully managed to get another bike. I could tell Dad was impressed...
However, with bikes successfully hired we found a cycle path and pedalled over the Rhone onto the new cycle path by the river. Great fun navigating round people, small children and dogs, roller bladers and the elderly, all whilst trying not to get out of control and end up in the Rhone - of course being France there is a "laisse
z-faire" attitude to safety, so no one wears a helmet and certainly no one is going to concern themselves with putting barriers between cycle paths and large, fast flowing rivers...
After a very pleasant, pedestrian dodging pedal, we not only found the park, but also found somewhere to park - miraculously there were actually spaces for our bikes.
The park is really beautiful - a bit like Hyde Park with lots of paths, lakes and trees and it also has a Zoo apparently. We weren't sure what the French laws are about drinking in public places, but we managed to find a fairly secluded spot to crack open the Cote de Rhone... and sleep.
However, with bikes successfully hired we found a cycle path and pedalled over the Rhone onto the new cycle path by the river. Great fun navigating round people, small children and dogs, roller bladers and the elderly, all whilst trying not to get out of control and end up in the Rhone - of course being France there is a "laisse
z-faire" attitude to safety, so no one wears a helmet and certainly no one is going to concern themselves with putting barriers between cycle paths and large, fast flowing rivers...After a very pleasant, pedestrian dodging pedal, we not only found the park, but also found somewhere to park - miraculously there were actually spaces for our bikes.
The park is really beautiful - a bit like Hyde Park with lots of paths, lakes and trees and it also has a Zoo apparently. We weren't sure what the French laws are about drinking in public places, but we managed to find a fairly secluded spot to crack open the Cote de Rhone... and sleep.
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