The weather app predicted 39c - given our failed attempt to escape the heat on the metro yesterday, this morning the kids and I headed to the Science and Industry museum, indoor fun! This past week has seen riots in Paris over Uber's new UberPop service so we'd avoided it so far. Our cab ride yesterday was preceded by a 15 minute wait at the cab rank in the boiling sun with every cab pulling over 50m up the road before the rank to pick up a new ride, w...

I woke up with a pigeon at the end of the bed, thankfully he knew the way out, all I needed to do was flick my leg. Of course I was up hours before anyone else - the heat had me up and functioning while everyone else remained liquified on their mattresses the floor strewn with bed clothes and pajamas discarded through the night. The room didn't get below 30c over night. We didn't leave the room until 11, the street already melting we thought the metro wou...

With a 7hr drive to Paris in front of us we were up and on the road impressively early given the late night in town the night before. We hit Lyon just before 10 and headed for Les Halles for brunch. Whilst we were clever enough to find the markets, I didn't think to see when they were open - with only a few stalls operating everyone managed to find their something special.With the clock burning we decided we'd better keep moving to Paris. Lyon looks far ...