Lyon-A vegetarians nightmare
So Jasmine has arrived and we have toured Rochefort du Gard, Avignon, St. Rémy de Provence and the Luberon. Now we are in Vienne a small town right outside of Lyon for the 2 day assembly. Today we drove to and toured Lyon and settled in at our bed and breakfast. In Lyon we eaves dropped on tour guides and walked around the vieux quartier stopping to eat first at a traditional 'bouchon lyonnais'. Want to know what is probably ground up and put in hot dogs? Snout, stomach, veal head, tongue, knuckle sausage, heart...etc, and they were all on the menu. Lyon is the food capital of France but boy when you say traditional you are going to be served enough scrap meat to weigh you down for a week. I settled for the oeuf meurette (poached egg in thick wine beef broth with chunks of ham)-> saucisson-> Fromage blanc. We got wine and it was served à la lyonnaise in a 'peau' a small wine bottle with a thick glass bottom and a rubber band ju...