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| Taking the train to Givors. The recommendation was to take the train instead of biking, since there was a short section on a very busy road. Then we biked from the Givors train station to Vienne. |   Picnicing on the way to Vienne. Right after this, there was a beautiful park with benches. |   However, we would have missed this water snake! You can see his head by the larger rock. | I think this ruin is the Château-fort de Seyssuel |   Waiting around for the apartment to be available. |   The view from our apartment | And...the other side |   The Roman ampitheater | A Roman temple |   On the way from Vienne to Serrieres - great trail day, almost all separated bike paths. |       Another nuclear power plant - Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Plant | Looking a little goofy, but I don't burn my face, nor do I get bugs in my eyes. |   A kids camp was doing some kayak games nearby where we had lunch. | Wheat silos, I imagine. |   Our apartment in Serrieres. |   We met these two British ladies in a cafe, they showed us their Bromptons folding bikes, which they absolutely loved. |   At the Musée des Mariniers du Rhône - mariners of the Rhone. It was a disappointing museum, we were done in 15 minutes (going at a very slow pace). | This is a model of the sport of "jousting" in a boat, which is (maybe was?) big here. |    Peter had an itch to go up high and get a good view, so we did. He went even further up... | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||