Our first official visit to Lyon as a family! We meandered the outskirts of town attempting to read the huge falling-apart paper city street map that we had and finally found an access street to one of the areas we were trying to get to! (We now have a GPS!) We first visited the Theatres Romains, the Grand Theatre, the oldest theater in France, built in 15 BC to seat 30,000 spectators and still used for modern perfomances, and the smaller Odéon, with its geometric tiled flooring. It was amazing to realize that this was the oldest structure that our kids and Derek had ever seen (I've been to Athens). We then went downhill to Vieux Lyon and had lunch at our first Bouchon (bistrot/tavern) serving traditional cuisine lyonnaise. These iconic restaurants, named for the bundles of straw hanging over the door indicating the availability of food and drink for horses and stagecoach drivers, were the medieval equivalent of truck stops. Bouchon dishes rely heavily on pig parts used in: andouillettes (veal & pork tripe sausage), boudin noir (black... blood sausage), gateau de foies blonds de volaille (chicken liver mousse), and bugnes (beignets of fried pork fat). If your arteries haven't hardened reading all of this, you might actually be willing to try some of it when you come to visit us! Oh, on the lighter side, they have Quenelles (a sort of dumpling... really good!), Sabodet (pig's head sausage) and and Rosette (garlicky pork sausage)!
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