A walk in the woods

A walk in the woods,
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On this visit to Lyon I was welcomed by Venkat in the railway station with a Pepsi Energy Drink. Then went to his house and was welcomed with Carrot Halwa. Then a dosa camp with Chutney and sambar, after all this we took a walk to the Parc de la Tete d'Or. The whole day just went of in the park like that. The park has a beautiful lake, a small island in the lake and a zoo also in the park. Since it was the just the beginning of winter so the final touch of autumn was seen there. It's very true every leaf in autumn is a flower. Most French people would find themselves in Lyon for business rather than for recreation: it's a get-up-and-go place, not a lie-back-and-rest one. Then came back in the evening had a nice Cabbage porial, with a nice sambar and rasam.
Lyon is organized into arrondissements. The centre of Lyon is the Peninsula, the tongue of land between the rivers Saone and Rhone, just north of their confluence. This strip of land is very good by night. One thing we need to learn is the way the illumination is provided to the buildings in the night us worth mentioning.
LYON is physically the second biggest city in France. Viewed at high speed from the Autoroute du Soleil, the impression it gives is of a major confluence of rivers and roads, a multitude of Renaissance buildings. But what has stamped its character most on Lyon is the commerce and banking that grew up with its industrial expansion. It is this that gives the town its staid, stolid and somewhat austere air. The building of the Bank Credit Lyonnise is impressive. From any corner of the City u would be able to c the building. It's very impressive in the night.
The city is now busy forging a role for itself within a new Europe, with international schools and colleges, which is why Venkat is there, and the new HQ for Interpol, a recently inaugurated eco-friendly tram system, a second TGV station with links to the north that bypass Paris, and high-tech industrial parks for international companies making it a modern city par excellence.