A Boggled Mind

The quantity and quality of food that I hqve eaten here over the last three days boggles the mind. I cannot even begin to describe it. Saturday morning Christian took me to the center of Lyon where our first stop was to visit, Monique, a friend of Christian's. She has a really lovely apartment right in the center of the city. She prepared a wonderful lunch for us --all specialties of Lyon and the region. I felt very special. Then Monique and Christian served as my guides to the city. Although it rained, we managed to see lots of great things. We walked to the old part of the city and then took the funicular up the hill for an incredible view of the entire city. We went into the Basilica of Notre Dame de Fourvière: The best part, for me, was the huge mosaic of the Camino de Santiago. It is a modern mosaic but it is pretty cool as it shows different stages of the walk and Christian and I could recognize several of the bulidngs represented in the work. We also visited the Roman theatre, the main square, and some other places. It was another great day.
Yesterday, Christian had organized a picinc but the weather was a bit cool so it was actually a big all day eating fest held at Joelle's place. It was a great opportunity to meet a lot of Christian's friends and family(probably about 20 people): I do not exaggerate when I say we arrived at about noon and left at about midnight--except for a one to two hour walk at around 5 p.m. it was pretty much 10 hours of eating extremely good food. Fortunately for me a few friends spoke some English so I didn't have to flounder too much.
Today is sort of a relaxing type day which is good. Tomorrow, I'm off to Portugal.