Being half French and having been forced to move to Paris at a young age. I recently paid a visit to Lyon and it's night and day. Paris isn't as good as it seems. First off the weather is probably as gloomy as Manchester. People are extremely unhelpful and borderline. Lyon is the complete opposite, there's a southern touch, even in the rain it's always bright, it's incredibly clean. It's also an amazingly lively place. I'm considering living there on a permanent basis. So sick of Paris and its hustle. My other half is from Lyon too.
@@khushalkhan919 In Paris or Lyon? I don't really know about Lyon as I haven't lived there - though I intend to. The great thing is public transportation, it's only a 2hr commute to Paris - which is what I do on a daily basis from Normandy to Paris. To give you an example I took the train back yesterday and it took me as long to get to Paris as it did from one borough of Paris to another. It's crazy but it's true. I know there are loads of opportunities in Lyon/Grenoble but its closeness to Paris and Marseilles makes Lyon a fantastic spot to find job opportunities. Again I'm not from Lyon so it's hearsay.
Lyon is 10 months cloudy weather and cold and 2 months burning heat. there are maybe a couple of weeks in the autumn and spring where it is acceptable. It has the worst weather of anywhere I've lived.
For the traveller from Paris, and that city’s rather monochrome palette of grey to greyer (with splashes of very intermittent colour to relieve the gloom, for Paris knows that it’s a resolutely northern place, and its buildings reflect those often cloudy skies), the first thing that strikes you about Lyon, 250 miles to the south, are the warm colours. Someone described the city’s overall appearance as like a crate of peaches ripening in the sun and this captures it nicely, as the red roofs and sun-bleached, fading stone more than hint of Le Midi, a hop-skip-and-jump down the Rhone Valley (Vienne? Valence? Montelimar?) It’s no accident that Lyon is almost exactly on the same latitude as Milan and Venice, as there is more than a hint of the Italianate in the ochre walls. Lyon is a lovely open city, with significant elevation on one side - reminiscent of Grenoble - looking east over the rivers divided by Presque Ile, across the rest of town. The most charming bit is the oldest bit, as is always the case in most French (and other countries’) cities. I almost gave myself a double hernia trying to romp up Fourviere Hill, but the pain soon eased when I clocked the majestic views from atop. There are also significant Roman ruins up here that are more extensive than I’d expected; a couple of theatres and other sundry bits and bobs. Least said about the Basilica (a sort of Romanesque/Byzantine mess of a mash-up) itself, the better. The reason to be up here are the views. The best church in Lyon is the main cathedral just down the hill. The rest of the time is best spent just aimlessly wandering. The old working-class district of La Croix-Rousse, is a (slightly gentrified) throwback to Lyon’s industrial past; a kind of self-contained village within the city. Place Bellecour, the city’s main square is a big, pompous, unwieldy thing and resembles nothing so much as a military parade ground. You can imagine Napoleon rallying his troops here on his way back from exile, (even if he never did.) But minor quibbles aside, Lyon can easily cope with 3 days of your life. I still can’t quite decide if its ‘northern’ or ‘southern’, though; I have always personally marked the start of Le Midi on this side of France at Montelimar, but on a midsummer’s day in Lyon, with the cicadas’ electric buzzing filling the air: this could well be the ‘true’ south. But where oh, where, are the shutters?!
Lyon n'est ni au nord ni au sud et c'est ce qui fait son originalité. Quant à son inspiration italienne, les vagues successives d'immigration italienne ont teinté cette ville. La place Bellecour est là, y'a pas à juger, la basilique de Fourvière aussi. Juger, c'est se séparer de ce qu'on observe. Bonne journée.
Pendant longtemps j'ai trouvé l'intérieur de la Basilique un peu "too much", surchargé, trop riche en détails, trop d'informations pour mon oeil et mes 2 hémisphères qui ont toujours préféré le style dépouillé de la Cathédrale St Jean (ou de n'importe quelle autre église), plus propice à une atmosphère religieuse. Mais avec l'âge, petit à petit, j'ai fini par apprécier ce style néo-Roman Byzantin, aujourd'hui je la trouve splendide, tout en appréciant encore et toujours le dépouillé des édifices médiévaux. En fait mon âme est vraiment lyonnaise.
@@abad5687Fair point. It’s right in the cusp, I suppose. I consider Venice and Milan ‘southern Europe’, so on that basis I include Lyon in this. In European terms it definitely feels/looks more southern than northern. 45°N is where southern Europe kicks in for me.👍
Another great vlog, my friend. Excited by your enthusiasm. Congrats on the adventure. Cannot wait to see Lyon on the southern France portion of our RTW UNESCO tour. Thanks for all the great work and we hope you enjoy your adventure and will find our content fun too. - Turtle and Bear
My grandparents live by/in lyon well my whole family apart from my mum dad sister and brother but yeah we’re trying to get to France as soon as possible we’ve not been for 9 years my grandad recently passed away my grandma has lucemea so we’re praying we can get to France
Wondeful video! We are going to France next month and will visit Lyon! We went to Piedmonte a few months ago and love it there! The coffee was so good. Is it better in Italy vs France?
I'm super biased because I live in Italy, so probably I'm the wrong person to ask 😅 Both countries are great to be honest! (But if you were asking specifically about coffee, it's better in Italy of course!)
@@DramaticallyExpatic That's quite alright. I'm a little biased as well. I think Italy is hard to beat! It's been years since going to France and I didn't really drink coffee at the time. Since visiting Italy, we only drink espresso ! We miss it there. Love seeing your videos!
Fourvière reminds you the Sacré-Cœur because both have been erected at the same period and by that time neo-bysantin style was the mood inspiration for french architects.
@@DramaticallyExpatic Unfortunately, from what I have seen on the news the Guillotière quarter is overrun by undesirables peddling cigarettes and drugs, robbing and attacking passers-by. Like many parts of France a good clean-up would be in order.
Bonjour Mame I m Sourav I will be persuing my Mba in hospitality management from Aura School Can you please make videos about accomodation, food in Lyon
No trabules are not builded from or since the first century (or problem of translating with youtube ? It possible that just that and sorry) the very first trabules in lyon is from 4th century but most are from 12th, 13th, 14th centuries and renovated lot of times until 19th/begin 20th centuries Only antic theatre and the Odeon (smaller antic theater near the great at Fourvière) are from the first century in Lyon from the gallo-roman epoch when Lyon was called Lugdunum and the Roman capital in Gaul for Roman Empire but Lugdunum was destructed by civil war betwen romans to decide who becoming Imperator betwen Lucius Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus (roman general) . Lugdunum was the siege for Albinus party (and army ...) and Septimus Severus taking action against Lugdunum after his victory ... The city was depopulated after burning during decades before rebirth to a "pre-medieval" city (before medieval epoch) : First traboules was from this epoch
Near Lyon you can found others Romans cities (smaller) like Vienne and Saint Romain en Gal (Vienna residential quarter at roman epoch) , at the epoch Vienna and Saint Romain are roman elitist cities with residential quarter for larges romans villas , testifying the important state of Lugdunum before the great burning at Septimius Severus epoch , Vienna and Saint Romain are cities for important Roman people named by Rome to govern Lugdunum and Gaul Actualy Saint Romain en gal is a village with important archeologist sites of important Romans villas quarter for these "Roman VIP" with lot of exemple of luxuary roman villas and lot of archeologist digs and sites and lot of to be "studied" for the future (for archeologist students and universities)
What a wonderful looking city! Thank you for showing us. I see that there is also graffiti in France like in Italy. In America, where I am from, there is not nearly as much graffiti. Much of the graffiti in America is gang related, what is the graffiti about in Italy and Europe? I am not able to read it. Is it more political? Just curious what your thoughts are. Ok, grazie mille! Paul in Firenze
Thank you! It really depends, it is political very often, but sometimes you can even stumble upon poetry or really cool street art! It would be great if there were more spaces dedicated specifically to the street art. Obviously obscene graffiti and the ones damaging the private property are a no, but I’m all about street art when it’s actually art 💛
Paris is not all that! Foreigners should really visit France as opposed to go to Paris like Paris was France. I moved to Lyon from Paris i can easily say Lyon is better than Paris! Weather, location not far from Switzerland, Italy and the Alps. France being one of the most centralized country in the world everybody thinks there is no life outside filthy Paris.
My wife and I were in Lyon for a copuple of days. The city was absolutely beautiful but the food was terrible. We had to look for Mcdonalds to get some familiar cuisine. Highly recommended city to visit in France.
You can't be serious, the food in Lyon blows 95% of the stuff you get in the States out the water. You must have been unfortunate enough to visit the tourist traps and worst places in the city. I'm just shocked because Lyon is often called one of France's best cities for food. Sorry to hear of your experience.
I was living in this city 60 years , and I can tell you : this is a nightmare !!!! with an endless winter , a rainy spring an autumn ,and a too hot summer !!! Since 3 years , I live in Playa Blanca , Canary Islands , and I can tell you : "this is the paradise where the life is cheaper !!!"🏖
Thanks for the video. Nice overview. But: Yikes, Starbucks! Really? You need that terrible cuppo in Europe? I live BETTER without it EVERYWHERE. Not just terrible coffee, also many other issues. Do your research.
A lot of cities are wonderful in France. Incredible country.
Being half French and having been forced to move to Paris at a young age. I recently paid a visit to Lyon and it's night and day. Paris isn't as good as it seems. First off the weather is probably as gloomy as Manchester. People are extremely unhelpful and borderline. Lyon is the complete opposite, there's a southern touch, even in the rain it's always bright, it's incredibly clean. It's also an amazingly lively place. I'm considering living there on a permanent basis. So sick of Paris and its hustle. My other half is from Lyon too.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Is it easy to find a job for a beginner?
@@khushalkhan919 In Paris or Lyon? I don't really know about Lyon as I haven't lived there - though I intend to. The great thing is public transportation, it's only a 2hr commute to Paris - which is what I do on a daily basis from Normandy to Paris. To give you an example I took the train back yesterday and it took me as long to get to Paris as it did from one borough of Paris to another. It's crazy but it's true. I know there are loads of opportunities in Lyon/Grenoble but its closeness to Paris and Marseilles makes Lyon a fantastic spot to find job opportunities. Again I'm not from Lyon so it's hearsay.
@@stephanevu-hoang1014 I'm curious, did you end up moving to Lyon? If so, I wonder how you like it now that you are living there.
Lyon is 10 months cloudy weather and cold and 2 months burning heat. there are maybe a couple of weeks in the autumn and spring where it is acceptable. It has the worst weather of anywhere I've lived.
Brings back sweet memories of my city, I actually studied in Lyon and lived in Vieux Lyon back in the day.. (2005)
My youngest goes to Paris tomorrow then Lyon to do Study Abroad starting next week. I'm excited for her
How's Lyon for study and to settle
Get the Lyon City Card, getting around is easy, sights are beautiful and the food is spectacular
Is it cheaper and smarter to travel with the city card?
One of my friends lives in lyon and I've been there many times , it's a great city ,it has a smaller town vibe very nice.
I studied there and will be back one day soon. Love Lyon❤
I can't wait to be back too, Lyon is lovely!
For the traveller from Paris, and that city’s rather monochrome palette of grey to greyer (with splashes of very intermittent colour to relieve the gloom, for Paris knows that it’s a resolutely northern place, and its buildings reflect those often cloudy skies), the first thing that strikes you about Lyon, 250 miles to the south, are the warm colours. Someone described the city’s overall appearance as like a crate of peaches ripening in the sun and this captures it nicely, as the red roofs and sun-bleached, fading stone more than hint of Le Midi, a hop-skip-and-jump down the Rhone Valley (Vienne? Valence? Montelimar?) It’s no accident that Lyon is almost exactly on the same latitude as Milan and Venice, as there is more than a hint of the Italianate in the ochre walls. Lyon is a lovely open city, with significant elevation on one side - reminiscent of Grenoble - looking east over the rivers divided by Presque Ile, across the rest of town. The most charming bit is the oldest bit, as is always the case in most French (and other countries’) cities. I almost gave myself a double hernia trying to romp up Fourviere Hill, but the pain soon eased when I clocked the majestic views from atop. There are also significant Roman ruins up here that are more extensive than I’d expected; a couple of theatres and other sundry bits and bobs. Least said about the Basilica (a sort of Romanesque/Byzantine mess of a mash-up) itself, the better. The reason to be up here are the views. The best church in Lyon is the main cathedral just down the hill. The rest of the time is best spent just aimlessly wandering. The old working-class district of La Croix-Rousse, is a (slightly gentrified) throwback to Lyon’s industrial past; a kind of self-contained village within the city. Place Bellecour, the city’s main square is a big, pompous, unwieldy thing and resembles nothing so much as a military parade ground. You can imagine Napoleon rallying his troops here on his way back from exile, (even if he never did.) But minor quibbles aside, Lyon can easily cope with 3 days of your life. I still can’t quite decide if its ‘northern’ or ‘southern’, though; I have always personally marked the start of Le Midi on this side of France at Montelimar, but on a midsummer’s day in Lyon, with the cicadas’ electric buzzing filling the air: this could well be the ‘true’ south. But where oh, where, are the shutters?!
Lyon n'est ni au nord ni au sud et c'est ce qui fait son originalité. Quant à son inspiration italienne, les vagues successives d'immigration italienne ont teinté cette ville.
La place Bellecour est là, y'a pas à juger, la basilique de Fourvière aussi.
Juger, c'est se séparer de ce qu'on observe.
Bonne journée.
Pendant longtemps j'ai trouvé l'intérieur de la Basilique un peu "too much", surchargé, trop riche en détails, trop d'informations pour mon oeil et mes 2 hémisphères qui ont toujours préféré le style dépouillé de la Cathédrale St Jean (ou de n'importe quelle autre église), plus propice à une atmosphère religieuse. Mais avec l'âge, petit à petit, j'ai fini par apprécier ce style néo-Roman Byzantin, aujourd'hui je la trouve splendide, tout en appréciant encore et toujours le dépouillé des édifices médiévaux. En fait mon âme est vraiment lyonnaise.
@@abad5687Fair point. It’s right in the cusp, I suppose. I consider Venice and Milan ‘southern Europe’, so on that basis I include Lyon in this. In European terms it definitely feels/looks more southern than northern. 45°N is where southern Europe kicks in for me.👍
@@fabgeronimo6596I’m glad you came to appreciate it. 👍 I’m still struggling! 🤣
Thank you! A beautiful video of a beautiful city with narration by a pretty and charming Italian woman.
Thank you so much ❤️
Another great vlog, my friend. Excited by your enthusiasm. Congrats on the adventure. Cannot wait to see Lyon on the southern France portion of our RTW UNESCO tour. Thanks for all the great work and we hope you enjoy your adventure and will find our content fun too. - Turtle and Bear
Thanks so much!
@@DramaticallyExpatic YW. Appreciate your stuff and hope you enjoy ours as well.
My grandparents live by/in lyon well my whole family apart from my mum dad sister and brother but yeah we’re trying to get to France as soon as possible we’ve not been for 9 years my grandad recently passed away my grandma has lucemea so we’re praying we can get to France
Really beautiful and wonderful place ❤
I fully enjoyed the content of this video which is packed with the beautiful scenery.😀👍👍
Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!!
@@DramaticallyExpatic You are welcome.🙏🙌🙌🙏
Was there 13 yrs ago. Very beautiful city 💙
Lyon is beautiful!
Wondeful video! We are going to France next month and will visit Lyon! We went to Piedmonte a few months ago and love it there! The coffee was so good. Is it better in Italy vs France?
I'm super biased because I live in Italy, so probably I'm the wrong person to ask 😅 Both countries are great to be honest!
(But if you were asking specifically about coffee, it's better in Italy of course!)
@@DramaticallyExpatic That's quite alright. I'm a little biased as well. I think Italy is hard to beat! It's been years since going to France and I didn't really drink coffee at the time. Since visiting Italy, we only drink espresso ! We miss it there. Love seeing your videos!
Fourvière reminds you the Sacré-Cœur because both have been erected at the same period and by that time neo-bysantin style was the mood inspiration for french architects.
Lyon is the best city in France…❤️❤️❤️
So beautiful city…😍😍😍
Wow beautiful city thanks for sharing 👍.
I lived there in 1991/1992 and it really is a beautiful city. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it ❤️
@@DramaticallyExpatic Unfortunately, from what I have seen on the news the Guillotière quarter is overrun by undesirables peddling cigarettes and drugs, robbing and attacking passers-by. Like many parts of France a good clean-up would be in order.
@@marktwain6609 dont go to guillotiere that's all......
Looks amazing❤
Wanted to be your 1000 like! 😅💕
What about usage of English language? Are locals viable? I am surely able to use basic and simple words and phrases in french but I am just asking.
I love Lyon.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it ❤️
ı like your video. I saw your video first time. where are you from?
Lyon's good! Where you from?
It is indeed! I'm from Ukraine :)
@@DramaticallyExpatic We hope that your country will get better soon! What cities in Ukraine are recommendable?
Bonjour Mame
I m Sourav I will be persuing my Mba in hospitality management from Aura School Can you please make videos about accomodation, food in Lyon
nice
No trabules are not builded from or since the first century (or problem of translating with youtube ? It possible that just that and sorry) the very first trabules in lyon is from 4th century but most are from 12th, 13th, 14th centuries and renovated lot of times until 19th/begin 20th centuries
Only antic theatre and the Odeon (smaller antic theater near the great at Fourvière) are from the first century in Lyon from the gallo-roman epoch when Lyon was called Lugdunum and the Roman capital in Gaul for Roman Empire but Lugdunum was destructed by civil war betwen romans to decide who becoming Imperator betwen Lucius Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus (roman general) . Lugdunum was the siege for Albinus party (and army ...) and Septimus Severus taking action against Lugdunum after his victory ... The city was depopulated after burning during decades before rebirth to a "pre-medieval" city (before medieval epoch) : First traboules was from this epoch
Near Lyon you can found others Romans cities (smaller) like Vienne and Saint Romain en Gal (Vienna residential quarter at roman epoch) , at the epoch Vienna and Saint Romain are roman elitist cities with residential quarter for larges romans villas , testifying the important state of Lugdunum before the great burning at Septimius Severus epoch , Vienna and Saint Romain are cities for important Roman people named by Rome to govern Lugdunum and Gaul
Actualy Saint Romain en gal is a village with important archeologist sites of important Romans villas quarter for these "Roman VIP" with lot of exemple of luxuary roman villas and lot of archeologist digs and sites and lot of to be "studied" for the future (for archeologist students and universities)
Thanks a lot for this information!!
very nice, I like🛺
I was surprised by the amount of graffiti on those beautiful old buildings! 😢
Nice city with beautiful vibe, only issue is the graffiti its everywhere
What a wonderful looking city! Thank you for showing us. I see that there is also graffiti in France like in Italy. In America, where I am from, there is not nearly as much graffiti. Much of the graffiti in America is gang related, what is the graffiti about in Italy and Europe? I am not able to read it. Is it more political? Just curious what your thoughts are. Ok, grazie mille! Paul in Firenze
No people sleeping outside or sketchy looking types is a big plus.
Thank you! It really depends, it is political very often, but sometimes you can even stumble upon poetry or really cool street art! It would be great if there were more spaces dedicated specifically to the street art. Obviously obscene graffiti and the ones damaging the private property are a no, but I’m all about street art when it’s actually art 💛
Also, have you seen my old video from Dozza, a small town near Bologna that’s full of beautiful street art? ua-cam.com/video/_XAyO13gHyY/v-deo.html
Well, it is most of the case just vandalism
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Every thing is nice everything she is a fan of, every thing is cool, everything delicious loves everything and anything.
You are filming a video on France, but promoting Italy. Congratulations, you are a TRUE Italian now🤣
That’s the best compliment 😁😁
contant que ma ville te plaise
… Pardon mais ça n’est pas uniquement TA ville. on est 1 500 000 à Lyon…😅
@@ericdurville6306 exact 😁
2,20€ transport ticket
it's a beautiful city but it's so expensive
Starbucks?
Paris is not all that! Foreigners should really visit France as opposed to go to Paris like Paris was France. I moved to Lyon from Paris i can easily say Lyon is better than Paris! Weather, location not far from Switzerland, Italy and the Alps. France being one of the most centralized country in the world everybody thinks there is no life outside filthy Paris.
69 la trik pelo, bien sûr que Lyon c'est la meilleure ville de France.
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My wife and I were in Lyon for a copuple of days. The city was absolutely beautiful but the food was terrible. We had to look for Mcdonalds to get some familiar cuisine. Highly recommended city to visit in France.
Lyon has an amazing number of restaurants , being the french food capital, how did you manage to go to the wrong ones ?
@sylviefournier1833 Maybe I went to the worst possible restaurant in Lyon.
You can't be serious, the food in Lyon blows 95% of the stuff you get in the States out the water. You must have been unfortunate enough to visit the tourist traps and worst places in the city.
I'm just shocked because Lyon is often called one of France's best cities for food. Sorry to hear of your experience.
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I was living in this city 60 years , and I can tell you : this is a nightmare !!!! with an endless winter , a rainy spring an autumn ,and a too hot summer !!! Since 3 years , I live in Playa Blanca , Canary Islands , and I can tell you : "this is the paradise where the life is cheaper !!!"🏖
Thanks for the video. Nice overview. But: Yikes, Starbucks! Really? You need that terrible cuppo in Europe? I live BETTER without it EVERYWHERE. Not just terrible coffee, also many other issues. Do your research.