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So - a few days in Lyon for the Biennale to look at art and to eat ‘site-specific food’. I've always found Lyon to be an interesting but harsh city, the traffic layout is fairly hard-core, and the rivers can make it a little chilly. There was some interesting work, in great spaces. As ever, a lot of textile activity, maybe somebody should create a textile art course! As well as the physical work exhibited there was some challenging, thoughtful video pieces including Pilar Abarracin https://www.pilaralbarracin.com/obras.html and Jesper Just https://www.perrotin.com/artists/Jesper_Just/41#news It's always fantastic to see art in unusual buildings - this was no exception - the Grande Loco space was superb in a post-industrial-abandoned-building kind of way, with excellent flooring that revealed a narrative of loss and change. Rethinking what used to be there after the grinders and bolt cutters did their work became part of the visit. Work was also sighted in an archaeological museum, a car park and Cité internationale de la Gastronomie de Lyon - Grand Hôtel-Dieu. The garden of the Museum of Fine Arts is in the former cloister of the Abbey of the Ladies of Saint-Pierre which used to be a hospital for the poor was truly fascinating. In terms of food....OMG beef cheek, leg of lamb, chicken tagine, pork and pistachio sausage, bone marrow with salt and pickles, Iles flottantes (possibility my fave pudding ever, if on a menu I have to have it, I have no choice) this one was pink due to the addition of praline and I even managed to get some boudin noir for breakfast. If in Lyon you must go to Brasserie Georges it's an institution, especially the birthday tradition - if you boiled down all of France it would look and feel like this place. https://www.brasseriegeorges.com/en/