A nice, quiet weekend. Just, err, football to occupy and vex the mind. Deux matches nul, as the French would say. First to the pub on Saturday afternoon to watch les cannoniers frustrate their way to a 1-1 draw, and then a Sunday evening trip to Gerland to watch OL and OM play out a stalemate, nul et vierge. Most entertainment, for les gones at least, was gained from the vociferous booing & whistling of former player Ben Arfa.
In between, on Saturday evening we went to Léon de Lyon, a Michelin-starred restaurant, as stage n in the celebration of la quarantaine. Michelin-starred until a couple of years ago, that is. It has since reopened as a mere upmarket brasserie. Very nice meal, all the same...
Elsewhere it's the weather making the headlines. The Massif Centrale is buried under several feet of snow, tens of thousands of homes cut off from the electricity grid due to 'a particularly heavy type of snow' rather than a outdated network, according to EDF, floods in Provence, and 5 metre waves on the Cote d'Azur washing away funfairs. In Lyon it's just been very cold and damp.
