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Snapshots of Lutetia - Ever Present Gare de Lyon

Strangely, the Gare de Lyon has always been prominently connected to my Parisian visits and life. I don't pass by there on my daily commute, or live close to it. So it could have been one of these places of which you know exist, but just hardly ever see. But on my first ever visit to Paris, I was about 15, we stayed in a hotel next to the Gare de Lyon. And from there it started. I vaguely remember walking through the station and seeing the orange TGV's, the largesse of it, something we do not have in Dutch stations, and the crowds moving. Then, just about when I started to consider Paris as a possible place to live, the brilliant movie 'Amélie' was released, in which the Gare de Lyon also plays a prominent role, even though most of the movie seems to be set in the 18th arrondissement. And then, there are the occasional business trips to our office near Grenoble, for which I take the now more greyish coloured TGV. From the Gare de Lyon, that services the destinations in the southern part of France. That might also be why the station's main restaurant has tried to give itself a bit of a mediterranean look by putting up a palm tree in one of the station's halls.

13 December 2009 | Tags used: garedelyon, paris, snapshotsoflutetia, station

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