2008 Elderhostel outing

Day 2, Saturday: We visit Pérouges and meet Libellule.

On the theory that the best way to deal with jet lag is to plunge right in and keep moving, our guide, Françoise Barbet, leads us directly from the Lyon airport to Pérouges, an ancient town of narrow streets lined with small houses built of stone and pebbles.  

  • on the way from Lyon to Pérouges
  • We get off the bus in Pérouges.
  • Françoise addresses her flock by the city gate.
  • a galette shop. So what’s a galette?
  • A galette au sucre, Pérouges’s culinary specialty, is a puff pastry cake.
  • Unlike most medieval wooden buildings, this one survived the fires which ravaged medieval towns thanks to its ground floor of stone.
  • a Pérouges restaurant offering wine tasting and galettes

During our wanderings around Pérouges, we stop at  L’Auberge du Coq for a delicious lunch which includes two Burgundian specialties: quenelles and gallettes.

  • déjeuner at L’Auberge du Coq
  • At Jack’s invitation, Ellen and Cristi smell the roses at L’Auberge du Coq.

As we continue our stroll, we discover the town square, the walls that once protected the town, and the town church.

  • the salt seller
  • Here lives a mean cat.
  • Here lives a nice cat.
  • walls old and older
  • view through an arch
  • one of the Pérouges town gates
  • chimney cap
  • Pérouges street
  • It tells the time only on nice days.
  • feed corn as décor
  • Jack and June and roses
  • a walled formal garden
  • the church in Pérouges
  • stained glass
  • stained glass

From Pérouges we return to Lyon. Boarding the barge Libellule, we are greeted by her wonderful crew, who immediately make us comfortable in the vessel that will be our home for the next five days.

  
  • Our first sight of Libellule
    Libellule's crew   
      manager Stacy    
pilot Marc
mate Joe
chef Mo
hostess Kaz
hostess Kate
chauffeur   Mike

  • L’église Saint-Georges, across the Sâone from Libellule.