May 28, 2019 Rest Day 2 Lyon

This morning we woke up to a great treat, as Bob had gotten up early and went down stairs to the market and had brought back fresh Baggett.  The smell of fresh bread and coffee in the morning was absolutely fabulous.  

Ken and I had a few bike chores to complete so we headed down stairs to the garage to work on bikes.  I needed to adjust my brakes.  It seems that I have been doing a lot of braking and have worn down the brake pads quite badly.  Having soft brakes is never a really good thing.  So that little task out of the way I cleaned and oiled the chain.  I also had a tube which needed to be patched.  Surly takes a 28x554 tubes which is not a common size so I always patch the tubes as you never know when the next time you are going to find new tubes. 

With chores out of the way Ken, Judy and I headed off to see the Museum of the Confluence.  This is the big ultra-modern museum here in Lyon.  It is right at the confluence of the Rhone and the Saone rivers. This is a magnificent facility. It is extremely well done with both French and English descriptions on everything.  It has a huge range of exhibits which explore everything from the origin of the universe to Japanese religious masks.  There is an excellent natural history section with a huge range of mineral specimens, fossils and animal mounts. There is a section on the industrial history which covers everything from early telephones to particle accelerators. Yes they have an early particle accelerator.  

The three of us met for lunch and walked out on the upper floor balcony to enjoy the view.  It was very pretty.  What a perfevt setting for this monument. 

On the main floor of the building is a large buffet restaurant.  I did not know that it was a Chinese buffet until we got into the restaurant.  It was absolutely great food.  They had a huge selection of sushi, which was very tasty.  There was a good selection of steamed buns and other dim sum items to choose from.  There was a special section where you could choose your food and then have it cooked by the chefs in the woks.  Then there was all of the stuff I love, the lemon chicken, sweet and sour pork, beef and onions, chow main noodles and on and on.   It was one of the memorable meals of the tour.  

Tomorrow we are back on the road and riding down to Grenoble.  This is the last of the segments.   It is hard to believe that we have only one week left of this tour. 

Terry