Visit from Lyon

I didn’t have much time to rest after my week in England, since we had some visitors from Lyons over for the weekend. Karine is an old friend of Mathilde from Alencon, where she grew up. We paid her, Johan and little Lucas a visit a few months ago in Lyon during our last little road trip. So now it was time to return the favour....

We started off Saturday with a proper solid breakfast, consisting of freshly baked baguette, croissants and a beignet (kind of similar to a Finnish "munkki")... Our stomachs full, we headed out to explore beautiful Cagnes-sur-Mer. Since the weather looked promising, we decided to head for the seaside. Unfortunately, the sky became overcast pretty quickly, so we weren’t really able to enjoy “a day at the beach”. Nonetheless, perhaps feeling the need to impress, I decided to have a "refreshing" swim in the sea (this act of foolishness probably explains the cold I have right now?)... After a coffee at the Neptune, we decided to head back to the warm confines of our house, since the weather started to get yet more menacing, with howling winds and even some raindrops appearing...

For dinner, we pondered various options such as restaurant, ordering pizza. In the end Mathilde kindly baked us a delicious pizza. Which we washed down with some nice wine, finishing off with some of Mathilde’s nan’s delicious eau de vie (always a great success!).

On Sunday, we again pondered various options for lunch.... We decided on the pedestrian promenade by the beach in Saint-Laurent du Var in the end. We don’t go there very often, but it’s a pretty nice place to have a walk, and there are certainly plenty of options for a relaxed Sunday lunch. In the end, we ended up in a pretty nice Provencal restaurant, serving local cuisine for quite a reasonable price. The sun made a bit of a more impressive showing than on the day before, so all in all it was a very pleasant way to end Karine’s and Johan’s visit – and also to celebrate Karine’s birthday (which was today).