Beaune and Lyon France – May 2025

May 14, 2025, we left on our second tour called the Best of France. Our first stop was Beaune (population 21,000 approximately) and we went to a museum called Hôtel Dieu – Hospices de Beaune. A very interesting museum and founded in 1443.

  • Hospital Beds
  • Wonderful art on the walls
  • Kitchen
  • Cute mural

A few photos of Beaune

  • Cute building
  • An old carousel

From there we drove to Lyon and stopped for the night but we had the evening to ourselves. Lyon is in east-central France at the confluence of two rivers, the Saone and the Rhone, population 520,000 approximately.

  • on the way into Lyon
  • downtown Lyon
  • Macarons
  • So pretty the way the flowers frame this
  • Saint Bonaventure Church

Off to Avignon, Monaco and the French Riviera next !

11 thoughts on “Beaune and Lyon France – May 2025”

  3. I like the street photography with the flowers dripping from the window boxes – very nice. I always like the pictures of the narrow cobblestone streets as well, including the picture of Clint in the street. That museum of the Hotel Dieu is pretty amazing in showing how it looked back then, right down to the kitchen. The beds from older eras in these buildings always seem so small don’t they?

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      1. You know I do remember learning about people being smaller back then too Susan. How did we get to be so tall – better nutrition probably. In school I had a professor that taught ancient history. He did not go by the book very much which was great as he had some very cool side gigs or hobbies (not sure which). He and a dentist friend of his at the university participated in studying several mummies and taking slides of their findings for a study on dental and bone structure. He brought the slides into class how they were unwrapped and also they x-rayed them first … they were fully-grown adults and so slight you would think they were children.

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      3. Yes, the teacher made the class very interesting. He had all these slides from the time the mummy (a/k/a PUM II) was delivered to Wayne State University and they had photos of how they unwrapped him and did the extensive autopsy, then a thorough dental examination by his friend. I went to the King Tut exhibit when it was in Toronto at the Art Museum in the 70s. It was very interesting.

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