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eu there are two towers 1 pencil tip 2 like a half pipe shopping centre center commerciale parte dieu beautiful not expensive fountain biggest park in lyon parc tete d ore beautiful lake underground and come up in centre of the lake public cycling stands 6 euros for seven days there are machines for hiring select how many days if you return to any stand within half an hour there is no extra charge there are cycling tracks i can now add my own reflections to the list lyon is the second largest city in france it was the centre of commerce for a region in france settled by the roman empire some time bc the ruins of the largest amphitheatre i ve ever seen are on the hill in lyon if you climb the stairs to the top of this hill you have a vista back across the whole city and can even see the alps in the background this is where you can go into the cathedral 3 the old town 2 is back down the hill it has wonderful shops to browse i had a crepe dinner here on my last night in lyon the delicious crepes were cooked on a cart and we sat out of doors i found the city bikes 9 on the first day and i m glad i did its unusual when you are in a city for a conference to have such freedom in your travel i rode the bikes everyday and enjoyed not being reliant on transport timetables the ride along the river from the city centre where i was staying to the conference venue was spectacular 6 the river is wide there are beautiful public spaces from fabulous children s playgrounds to picnic areas to fountains to grassy enclaves where people in bikinis tanned i didn t go to the shopping centre he recommended 7 but the parc tete d ore 8 is wonderful i was surprised to find in the park a free zoo i came upon the animal cages before i realised i had entered a zoo wtf is that a giraffe i spent time wandering the gardens with friends from the conference here as well because it was within walking distance from the conference venue but the list did not include recommendations about finding good food firstly i would add that any bakery in lyon is a great start and there are numerous secondly i highly recommend an eating institution which everyone in lyon seemed to know about brasserie georges luckily i have colleagues who always find fabulous restaurants in faraway cities the restaurant was a wonderful french experience the ambience the food the service getting to the restaurant also turned out to be a french experience for me i rode a city bike from my hotel to a bike stand that i now realise was opposite brasserie georges except that the road was split between where i parked and the restaurant was a wide motorway and nearby a large rail terminal not realising this i walked my half of the road without seeing it and became lost my french is poor to non existent but i had a little routine that i could use for emergencies upon realising i was lost i approached a woman at a bus stop and said in french bonjour i am australian i don t speak french i showed her the address of where i was going but it was not until she read brasserie geroges that her eyes lit up ah brasserie georg geh she said i m trying to capture the accent and you need to pronounce the g softly with an h sound in there as well she pointed me in the right direction and told me how to get there in french i followed the direction she pointed but because i didn t understand the directions soon became lost again i approached another person this time i used my routine but added brasserie geor geh to it with a little palms up shoulder shrug the recognition was instant again i was pointed in a direction and given instructions in french of course i walked in the direction pointed but soon became lost again i went through this routine with four more people before finally arriving an hour late i had walked a large three sixty to appear upon the restaurant from exactly the opposite direction to which i had parked my bike but i made it my friends had saved me some of the antipasto entree sensational poured me a glass of wine also sensational and i ordered duck sensational and coffee icecream parfait for dessert magnificent but it kept me up way too late that night i was proud of myself as you know its quite stressful being lost i consciously calmed myself down and thanks to the friendly french people had a wonderful experience of it rather than tears the view from the top of the hill in lyon the beautiful rhone in lyon my first day on the lyon city bikes eating the sensational antipasto at brasserie georges posted by ejenne filed in people travel women 2 comments fate brought me to karlos b october 8 2011 yesterday i fell off my bike how the bolt holding my seat on broke in half and my butt was connected to the seat when it hit the ground are you okay i took the impact onto my hip it hurt and i have a fist sized bruise there now i m noticing other bruises on my legs where the frame landed but they re just bruises i m perfectly okay really i had ridden for two hours and had arrived at mordialloc it was when i was hopping back on my bike for the return trip that i fell i d only made two or three pedals on a low gear and was going quite slow luckily i landed on a flat surface and not in the midst of oncoming traffic although a few seconds later the bus parked at the stop i was passing would have been right behind me how did you get home true you can t ride a bike without a seat knicks are heavily padded but not padded enough for that four gentlemen came to my aid when i was lying on the ground in shock the bus driver and three bystanders from the cafe in the area once they d collected all of the seat bits off the road they established the cause the broken bolt and we realised that more than an alan key was needed to solve this one i was directed to a nearby bike shop the bike shop was less than 50 metres from where we were i hobbled off in the direction i was told to go reassuring the kind people i was okay and making some sort of joke about the size of my butt given that i d just snapped my seat bolt in half in the bike shop i met karlos firstly he examined the seat and responded quickly to my repeated joke to compliment my shape and say that my butt size wasn t the cause of the broken bolt which was sweet and entirely the right thing to say to a woman whether it were true or not he told me it was the fourth broken seat bolt he d had to deal with that day and showed me the marks on the seat that indicated it had been fixed too far back this put pressure on the bolt no wonder it snapped secondly he ascertained that it was an aluminium bolt and not very strong while he was explaining all this to me in a gentle and caring tone i started to feel like we all do when someone is sympathetic a little sore and sorry for myself i couldn t help it a few little tears escaped and ran down my cheeks what s wrong he asked i just fell off my bike i replied he gave me a hug i dug out a tissue and pulled myself together i carry a snap lock bag with cash credit card bandaids a tissue and my garage blip in it he was impressed with my organisation where did you learn to do that oh i ve been riding road bikes since i was 18 i told him he started work on my bike did you feel like you were reaching too far for the handle bars he asked i told him that i had i d only had the bike for one year i bought a carbon fibre bike with ultegra gears as a package from melbourne cycles it was a lovely bike but i had always harboured doubts about the way they d set it up for me because i felt as though i had to stretch on long rides i experienced back pain as never before and i couldn t comfortably reach the drop position a position i d been very comfortable in on my previous bike set up by ivanhoe cycles i d even asked my bike guy at uni to check the set up he improved the situation but only slightly karlos history was in bike manufacturing he d been head hunted for the job at mordialloc bicycle centre where i found him and he d only been there a few weeks his sport was downhill mountain bike racing he was 35 but had the demeanour of a man much younger he was an adrenalin junkie compared to the spills he d had in his downhill career my thud onto the bitumen was pretty lame apparently he is fairly famous in that circle known as the jackal despite the thrill seeking he had a wholesome philosophy about cycling and life maybe that s because he was essentially a country lad apparently my handlebar stem had been put on upside down by putting it the right way up karlos brought my handle bars closer to my reach coupling this with the adjustment of the seat position i felt as though i was on a different bike one that had been sculpted around my body shape i was ecstatic but that s not all he did you do realise the seat you have on is for males don t you no it was sold to me as a female seat have a look at this this is a female seat it has this little gap here do you think that would make a difference to your comfort karlos didn t realise that he was talking to someone who for a year had been putting up with too much pressure on a very sensitive part of her body thinking it was just down to getting the angle right who at the end of every ride regardless of the seat angle felt as though she d lost a layer of skin from that area and who had gritted through 210 km in around the bay last year minus several layers of sensitive skin due to the unnatural pressure and deep bruising around each sit bone what i was astonished cross and relieved at the same time do you think you could sell me a female seat right now you can have this one for 20 bucks he grinned he adjusted my handlebars and put a stainless steel bolt in to hold my new seat i told him to sell my old seat if he could it was only a year old i rode the 50k home and arrived just before it started to rain with a few warning drops falling from the sky even though my bruises gave me a bit of pain i was so much more comfortable on my bike and all this just a week and two days before this years around the bay posted by ejenne filed in cycling living in melbourne outdoor sporting interests weird experiences women leave a comment on my run i saw four black cockatoos six kangaroo and an eastern rosella september 14 2011 on my run this afternoon i saw four black cockatoos six kangaroo and an eastern rosella yep you guessed it i m back in australia and despite a little bit of jet lag i have just managed to do my usual 10k run i think it was the lyon city bikes and swimming laps in the pool at the university of exeter that kept me fit whilst away for two weeks despite conferencing during the day eating out at night and drinking a little bit more and staying up later than i normally would the highlights of the trip apart from the conferences themselves and the wonderful people with whom i had professional and happy catch up discussions the highlights of the trip were 1 on safari in search of dartmoor ponies 2 exploring lyon on city bikes and on foot following is a photographic chronology of my dartmoor safari firstly it took a little while to find our way onto the moors but we knew we were there when the trees became windswept there were no stone fences and we could see tors on the horizon it was amongst the tors that i first spotted evidence of the ponies so i took a photo of the evidence just in case we didn t find any actual ponies we sat on the tors for a little while and became very windswept ourselves through binoculars we spotted ponies on a far away ridge and some more by a far away road under a tree it was exciting we jumped in the car and headed for the far away road after many twists and turns we passed the very same ponies that we had seen magnified though our binoculars still standing under the tree i lept out of the car and captured the beasts on film the photographs i will now share with you wild ponies although they didn t look particularly wild they sort of looked tubby and placid in australia we have wild horses called brumbies they are legendary and you get the image of them running in packs tossing their manes in the wind bucking and such and being quite fierce if you ever come across them you d expect a bit of hoof stamping and nostril flaring at the minimum i suppose that s what i was expecting of the dartmoor ponies but on second thoughts i should have realised that they weren t quite the same as the wild horses in the australian high plains their title ponies should have given me the heads up oh well we had a fun day and topped it off with cream tea in dartmouth in the sun it was much warmer in dartmouth than up on the moors stay tuned for more adventure travel stories next up getting lost in lyon in search of brasserie georges posted by ejenne filed in travel 4 comments sunset from the transit lounge hk august 28 2011 if you do pump then have a massage at the oriental healing centre at hong kong airport 35 hours later it will hurt some people would say that if you do pump thirty five hours later you will hurt other people might suggest that pain would be experienced at the elbows of the masseurs at hk airport regardless of what you did thirty five hours prior the combination is therefore a no brainer but i can vouch that it is an acute pain that takes training to endure my training took place at a very early age and i was coached by my father a la pavlov when i was a kid my father encouraged us all to have our fillings done without pain relief he d make light of the drill and reward us by telling us how brave we were i endured the pain of the massage by breathing through it it took quite a bit of breathing there were times i thought i wouldn t make it but i m glad i did because the massage cured my headache and filled in one of the eight hours i have here at hk airport i filled another hour by going to starbucks there i met a random traveller from india who s in the logistics business dealing with trade in and out of russia and china i think now i might go and find a restaurant for some dinner and some chinese tea posted by ejenne filed in interesting facts travel women 1 comment conquering the travel heeby geebies august 26 2011 hello blogging world thanks for being here i must admit i have a bit of travel anxiety building up i used to think that the anxiety was caused by other people for example my husband would insist on the week leading up to my departure that i do extraneous jobs like sort out the children s wardrobes and be on duty for kids sport and night club pickups all week i had thought he was intentionally sabotaging my peace of mind i d get on the plane wound up after a week of total chaos and tension in the house this time he did ask me to sort out the wardrobes but i realised all i had to do was quietly explain that i was busy getting my conference presentations ready and that he please refrain from asking me to do non urgent jobs for a week at least he backed off i ve had space and time to focus on my work but with a day and a half to fly out the anxiousness is her...