The majority of my readers (which aren't many!) know the reason of me leaving Lyon: to run a marathon a day for 100 days in a row, to complete a Tour de France this summer!
If you are interested in this challenge, please like my Facebook page to follow my progress, photos, funny stories, funny videos, and follow me live (gps tracker) here:
https://www.facebook.com/tiagorunsletourdefrance/
I am also doing this to help a very important and known French charity, les "Restos du Coeur" so, if you feel generous, and think what I am doing deserves it, please send any amount of money to them via my secure donations page here:
http://tinyurl.com/tiagorestosducoeur
Although I will still be in France, this was a blog about my adventures in Lyon, and since I will be putting all the info gathered during this challenge into my Facebook page, I think this might be my last blog post!
What else happened in the last few months that is worth writing about?
1. Diana, my wife came over and spent 3 weeks here with me, and she also fell in love with this city! She managed to meet all of my family that lives here, and pretty much all of my friends! We had a great time and it was really sad when she had to leave again!
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| On top of the "Lyon" |
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| We pretty much went to a boulangerie every day to buy baguettes/pain au chocolate! |
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| Annecy |
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| Annecy |
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| Annecy |
My speaking and writing are my major weaknesses, but are OK for communicating, and should only get better during these next 3 months running around France and meeting people!
Below, you can see my level of spoken French in a video that the Alliance Française de Lyon, my school, did with me.
There, I talk about Lyon, the school and reasons I came to France/Lyon, and also about the challenge I'm about to start.
3. I had to say goodbye to everyone that I met during my time in Lyon, and since I don't have a house (I lived all this time in a student accomodation), I decided to organize a pic-nic at the Parc de la Tete D'or, as it was going to be sunny! It was a great afternoon and there was lots of food, music, laughing and it was great getting a lot of different friends together in the same place!
I really enjoyed this city, its' not big but not small either, the right size for me at this moment in my life! You can always find things to do, people are friendly and open minded. There are beautiful places to relax, and around Lyon are some beautiful places to visit not too far, like Annecy!
I really recommend this city to anyone thinking about coming to live in France! I prefer it to Paris! Personally, Paris is too busy for me, like London! A lot to offer, yes..but also too much stress at the same time, so not worth it! Lyon gives you a great amount of stuff to do, but with not much stress or noise!
It was a pleasure sharing my experience here with you, and I hope this has inspired anyone out there to also follow their dream of living somehere else, and to learn a new language like I did! It can only happen if you go for it!
I will leave you with some photos taken in the last few months and wish you all the best! Please feel free to contact me for any tips or questions about life in Lyon, and feel free to follow my adventure running around France!
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| Parc Miribel |
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| Annecy |
À bientôt!!
