Journey from Oran, Algeria to Lyon, France

The flight from Oran, Algeria to Lyon, France took about two and half hours. We reached around 21:00. Once we reached Lyon, we thought immigration will take atleasst an hour (thats how it is in India and Algeria :(. Here in France, no need to fill any forms also. The officer scans your visa in  the system and then he stamps in your passport. We were done with immigration in 5 mins. There are 2 options to reach from the airport to the Lyon city: Rhoneexpress and Satobus. We took the rhoneexpress (mini tram) to the city... If you have surfed all the info before and noted them down in your mini  notebook then there is no way you can get lost in this organized and planned city... There were sign boards in the airport with regard to directions to get to the satobus(8.5 Euro per adult) and rhone express (11 Euro per adult).. There is also information counter [i]where they are kind enough to provide you with the metro map, city guide, city map etc....

Inside the rhone express

When we were wating for the rhone express we saw a TGV (Super fast trains in France) pass through by... The first sight of a TGV just passing by you makes u think can a train really travel so fast? It leaves u bewildered. The rhoneexpress had comfortable seats :) We bought the ticket from the train master who was very friendly and he spoke good English which made us happy.... In France, most of the people in the service Industry do speak English apart from French :)

Chicken with yummy French fries :)

We got down from the tram, to see our hotel, Campanile, was just opposite the station.... We were so happy... We had dinner at the hotel restuarant which was really good... We were ready for the next day... Sight seeing in Lyon....