Society, stunning Architecture and.........roadworks

Wednesday 28 August
We decided to christen our GPS Amelie. She has a nice English accent and mispronounces most of the French words but she did a good job getting us from Paris to Lyon. But I never trust them completely. At 0730 this morning Flashy is sent on a mission for croissants but finds all shops closed. Instead we settle for a cup of coffee at home then head off to retrieve our car  from the street and take it to Anne's lock up garage on the top of the hill above us in a 5 Star Hotel Carpark.  We start off ok with Lady Penelope driving and Amelie talking sweetly. However, within minutes, the - apparently only road up the hill to our garage is blocked for roadworks. Calls by Amelie to “make a u turn when possible,” when we are on a long one way road are, to say the least, not helpful. Luckily Lady P's sense of direction and Flashy's paper map eventually see us at the entrance to a garage, in which Anne has purchased lock up (number 178). We manage to defeat the security, back into a very tight space and lock up the car. Emerging from the bowels of the garage into daylight, we walk down the road we should have come up and search for food. It's 0930 by now and still not much open so, ever resourceful, we purchase bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomato and a baguette traditione and take it all back to our apartment for a ‘Full English.’ After some time researching, we book a Paul Bocusse brassiere for Friday lunch and slowly emerge into the cobbled streets of the old town to begin another day of campaigning.
We feel the need to up the steps today as yesterday we only just managed to hit our 10,000 target so we set of for some culture, both society and architecture heading for the Musee des  Confluences.

As the sun was at its highest and hottest, as luck would have it a small  river taxi which travels very infrequently just across the bridge from us to Confluence, pulled into the quai just as weapproached. Lady P ran to alert the Captain and so for €4 we were able to travel in relative coolness to Confluence. This amazing building at the tip of the meeting of the two rivers , the Saone and the Rhone, is a modern addition to what was once a busy Port in Lyon. Fascinating both inside and out with an amazing glass structure it is in direct contrast to Vieux Lyon where we are staying. Lady P embraced all the amazing exhibits including a lot of aboriginal artwork representing the development of societies through the ages and the displays were very inspiring and particularly appealing to the younger audience. It gave a whole new meaning to the ‘school museum excursions’ of the 1960’s. Returning to the centre of town again via the local tram and metro provided even more excitement as we ventured underground so when we successfully emerged 15 mins later in the intended location another celebratory drink was in order. We returned home to shower (and GnT of course) before a late supper and a relatively early night.