Our apartment in Anzère was on a slope with a nice view of the Rhône river valley in the Swiss canton of Valais. Despite being in a ski resort town in the…

We left Lyon early one Sunday morning on a bus full of Romanians. We needed to get to the Swiss alps, but no trains leave Lyon for Geneva until after 3…

For our second day following the Tour, we took the train south to the village of Saint Clair du Rhône. We arrived early enough to see the promotional caravan, where…

As we were planning our visit to France, we learned that the famous bicycle race would be passing to the west and south of Lyon in late July. We made…

One sunny afternoon we took a short train ride twenty miles northeast of Lyon to the medieval hilltop town of Pérouges. Although inhabited since before Roman times, most of the…

When the sun came out in Lyon we paid a visit to the city’s largest park, Parc de la Tête d’Or. We wandered by the deer field and made our…

Lyon was cool and damp our first few days in town, so we spent time in some of its more interesting museums.

We left Milan early one morning to catch the TGV to the northwest and the French city of Lyon. The third largest city in France, we’ve been enjoying its restaurants,…

When we weren’t visiting all those churches, here’s what we saw during the rest of our time in Milan.

One fine Tuesday we rode the train north to visit the picturesque town of Como near the Swiss border. Only 30 minutes from Milan, the town sits at the southern end of the…