Sweet trip. I've never been to Lyon. How was it? Worth a visit?
My fraternity brother spent the summer with my family outside of Munich, Germany in the mid-eighties.
We travelled throughout Europe and I took him to the South of France. I was used to nudity on the beach having lived over there. He, suffice it to say, was not...LOL...He really liked it there.
Other than the lacks of tops and the thongs, my two biggest memories of Nice were the American sailors on the beach buying Heineken from guys walking up and down the beach and then surrounding their towels with the empties...Guys would be passed out surrounded by 15-20 bottles by the end of the day. The other was the number of people sleeping on the beach and then spending the day on their sleeping bags, especially the Swedes. No idea where, or if, they showered. Gross.
Monaco was beautiful and Paris is one of my favorite cities...