My day started with a fresh baguette and croissant, brought by my little French girl Fifi.
Every major city has it's beautiful park: New York has Central Park, London has Hyde Park and Toronto has High Park. Our Monday was spent in Lyon's most fun park: Parc de la Tête d'or.
Right at the entrance a pleasant surprise. Dozens, maybe hundreds of turtle enjoyed the mid day sun in a beautiful line. Those who know me also know about my fascination for these creatures. Needless to express my enthusiasm when I saw them.
Andra and our little friend Saul.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Parc de la Tête d'or ("Park of the Golden Head"), in Lyon, is a large urban park in France with an area of approximately 117 hectares (290 acres). Located in the 6th arrondissement, it features a lake on which boating takes place during the summer months. Due to the relatively small number of other parks in Lyon, it receives a huge number of visitors over summer, and is a frequent destination for joggers and cyclists. In the central part of the park, there is a small zoo, with giraffes, elephants, deer, reptiles, primates, and other animals. There are also sports facilities, such as a velodrome, boules court, mini-golf, horse riding, and a miniature train.
What an amazing idea! I had never seen a horse and carriage on pedals.
Popsicle for all.
A sweet mother-daughter moment.
THE ZOO
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
The zoo was created at the same time as the park. At first, it was scheduled to create only of a farm for educational purposes, with some local wild animals, but little by little, developments have been increased to accommodate new animals and the park progressively has been turning into a real zoo.
The zoo now houses animals from around the world. It extends over six hectares and counts several hundred animals, including many large mammals, some are very rare, like the Barbary lion, extinct in the wild since 1922.
In October 2006, the park opened "La Plaine Africaine" ("The African plain"), an area where 130 different animals - some belonging to rare and protected species - live in freedom on 2.5 acres (10,000 m2). The African plain is divided into five parts. The savannah part, where Ankole-Watusis, the Nile lechwes, guineafowls and black crowned cranes can be seen, is the largest. It communicates with the part reserved for giraffes. A wet land houses many breeds of birds, including pelicans and flamingos, and lemurs on an island. An adjacent enclosure is reserved for crocodiles, which are allowed to go out only escape during hot weather. At the east end of the plain, a pavilion houses the boses for antelopes, and some sandy enclosures adorned with rocks and stumps, where live yellow mongooses, porcupines, sand cats, and bat-eared foxes and turtles. Other areas in reconstruction in 2010 spring, host servals, leopardsand lions.
Pelicans
Crocodile
A family of ducks.
The Parc de la Tête d'or has a number of different attractions for children, like carrousels, playgrounds, rides, zoo and cotton candy vendors, but my girls' favourite was this wood and rope playground. They really had a blast working on these obstacles.
This is the picture that summarizes the day.
Family, friends, love, laziness.
With little energy left, we canceled our dinner out plan and improvised a (fake) French dinner at home.
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