After spending three days in Paris, the Xiao family took a cursory tour of the downtown area of Paris, and compared with the various attractions with obvious Chinese national style, Paris is full of strong Western art atmosphere.

For the Xiao family living in Ginkgo Village, Paris may not be a very good place to live, but it is still very good as a place for shopping, tourism and leisure.

There is Xiao Feng to pay the bill, everyone is open to buy this time, even the old lady also bought a few enamel snuff bottles in a few antique stores, although it is not a palace boutique, but it is also a master's work, but it makes the old lady happy.

As for the women's army, their combat effectiveness is amazing, and many domestic reporters who went to Paris to report on this Bocuse cooking competition have seen this group of beauties sweeping goods in Parisian famous stores more than once, and occasionally heavyweights such as Xiao Xiao and Xu Mengyao can be seen in some reports.

Many gossip media are very keen to chase the Xiao family's extravagant shopping behavior in Paris, but due to the presence of a large number of security personnel, these media can only take some unclear photos from afar, let alone interview the Xiao family.

As the video footage of Xiao Feng being interviewed by several heavyweight media in China was broadcast on the Internet, many fans of Xiao Feng and netizens who watched the excitement turned their attention to Paris.

This year is the first time that a chef from the Chinese mainland has made it to the finals of the Bocuse Cooking Competition, and this boo alone is enough to make people more interested. What makes people talk about it even more is that 'Xiao Family Private Restaurant' is a three-Michelin star Chinese restaurant, but Xiao Jinhao and Xiao Feng defeated many competitors in the Asia-Pacific region in the way of Western food and entered the finals!

This year, 12 chefs from Europe, 14 from the Americas and 6 from the Asia-Pacific region qualified for the Grand Final, where they will compete in Lyon.

Known as the Olympics of the chef's world, the Bocuse d'Or has a high status in the gastronomic world. Therefore, in addition to the media attention, veterans of the food industry and various gourmets have also gathered in France, which has focused people's attention on the Western European continent in spring.

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In the southeast direction, 460 km from Paris. There is a city known as the "provincial capital" of France - Lyon!

Lyon, a large city in southeastern France. The capital of the Rhône-Alpes region and the capital of the Rhône department, the second largest metropolitan area in France.

It is an important industrial city in France, a major producer of chemical fibers, and has strong industrial and commercial strength in machinery, electronics, heavy vehicles, and computers. With more than 20 institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions, it is the most important educational center outside of Paris. Located at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers and on the strategic corridor from the Mediterranean to the north of Europe, it is a hub for water, land and air transport, connecting northern and southern Europe.

Lyon is a city of culture and the arts, having flourished since Roman times. In 1998, it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage City. Lyon is a famous city of the European Renaissance, the "city of culture", "the capital of gastronomy" and "the capital of frescoes" in France, and Lyon is also the birthplace of cinema, the capital of European silk that lasted for three centuries, the powerful industrial city of the French Third Republic, and the city that participated in the resistance during World War II.

Paul Bocuse, the initiator of the Bocuse d'Or d'Cuisine, was born in a rural area on the outskirts of Lyon, and it is precisely because of his deep affection for his hometown that the biennial Bocuse Grand Final is held in Lyon.

This time, many of the contestants and journalists will move to Lyon after arriving in Paris for a series of activities. Witness the last wonderful.

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This time, the Xiao family did not choose an airplane, but chose a high-speed railway with French characteristics, from Paris to Lyon. A two-hour drive isn't a big deal for everyone.

The Xiao family plus the security personnel, Xiao Feng proudly chartered a carriage, and even had a vacant seat to invite the accompanying domestic media to board the train, which made the media reporters feel surprised.

These reporters are also very knowledgeable, and after boarding the train, they consciously turned off all kinds of photography equipment, and did not disturb the adults and children of the Xiao family for interviews, and the whole carriage was like an ordinary train car.

"I didn't expect the train to be a bit powerful when it got up!" the old lady looked at the farms and flower fields that kept flying outside the window, and sighed with emotion.

In the past, the old lady also took the train from Nanzhao to Chuncheng. The slow diesel locomotive, coupled with the fact that it stops at every small station, has an average speed of only 50 kilometers per hour. Compared to this high-speed railway, which can reach speeds of up to 250 kilometers per hour. There is simply no comparison.

"There are already a lot of high-speed railways in our country, and grandpa can take the high-speed rail from Beiping to Haizhou in the future. It's also good!" Xiao Feng did not travel with the transferred ingredients, but traveled with his family.

In fact, Xiao Feng has never taken the high-speed rail in China, because most of the trips are by plane, so this high-speed rail trip in France is also the first time he has experienced a big girl.

In fact, if it is two cities that are relatively close to each other, the time advantage of high-speed rail is much faster than that of airplanes, after all, airports are generally far away from urban areas, and the procedures for waiting for flights and boarding are very cumbersome.

Tongtong, Nini and Xiao Haoyu ran around in the carriage, laughter resounded in the carriage, for the children, it was the first time to travel by train, and to be with so many families, it was so happy.

Compared with the relatively small space of cars and airplanes, the spacious and comfortable environment of high-speed trains and all kinds of novel equipment make children particularly happy.

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In less than two hours, the train slowly stopped at the train station in Lyon!

Interestingly, in France, the Gare de Lyon is not in the city of Lyon, but in Paris, and this ironic naming may only be done by the romantic French.

The train station where Xiao Feng and his entourage arrived was located in a high-speed railway station near Lyon's Saint-Exupéry airport, with its imposing and light roof, like the wings of a large bird. It is the heart of a new multi-modal platform that, for the first time in France, connects air transport, high-speed locomotives and a network of motorways.

Out of the train station, the luxury convoy from the Four Seasons Hotel was already waiting, and Xiao Feng and his family got on the train and left directly. Of course, Xiao Feng did not forget to let the team bring the media reporters to the city, after all, everyone is Chinese, so they naturally have to help each other outside.

Lyon is a famous city of the European Renaissance, a large platform for Renaissance European commercial culture, the gastronomic capital of France, the birthplace of cinema, the European silk capital that lasted for three centuries, a powerful industrial city of the French Third Republic, the base of the Interpol headquarters and one of the cities that participated in the resistance during World War II.

Lyon has a thriving university town, as well as the Fourvière, known as the Prayer Hill, where the remains of an ancient Roman theater are well preserved. At the foot of the hill, the old town of Lyon, located on the west bank of another river, the Saône, was declared a World Heritage Site in 1998 and is a work of the combination of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Therefore, when the convoy was moving, the tour guide still deliberately took the Xiao family to browse the scenery along the way in the car, which also gave Xiao Feng and others a better impression of the city.

In fact, Lyon is a city with a strong Chinese imprint, and its relationship with China goes back centuries!

Historically, Lyon was the distribution center of Chinese silk products in Europe, and after the silk technology was introduced to Europe, the silk industry developed rapidly in Lyon, and in the 17th and 18th centuries, Lyon became the silk capital of Europe.

In the 19th century, the Qing Dynasty sent a group of young people to Lyon to learn silk crafts. Among the 3 million weaving samples and 15,000 pieces of clothing and ready-to-wear in the famous weaving museum in Lyon, the silk products of the Chinese dynasties occupy an important position.

In addition, another important connection between Lyon and China is education.

In 1900, Lyon was the only European city to teach Chinese, and Lyon was the first French city to accept Chinese students. Founded in 1921, the Sino-French University of Lyon is also the first and only Chinese university abroad. In that year, with the assistance of Chinese educators such as Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng, France used the "Gengzi Indemnity" to establish the "Sino-French University" in Lyon, a gathering place for Chinese students and work-study students. Among these international students, including the premier, the chief designer, Chen Laoshuai, Nie Laoshuai, the famous translator Dai Wangshu, etc., they have made great contributions to China after returning to China.

During the procession of the convoy, Xiao Feng and others found that there were many bicycle rental points on the roadside, and there were bicycle lanes on the road, which deserved to be the city with the strongest cycling atmosphere in France.

After a circle around the city of Lyon, the convoy returned to the Four Seasons branch in Lyon, which is a direct store of an internationally renowned hotel group, providing extremely attentive service to the Xiao family.

In the next few days, Xiao Feng, Xiao Jinhao, Qin Weiguo and others will need to concentrate on preparing and participating in the cooking competition, while the rest of the Xiao family will continue their travel and shopping trips in Lyon!

The pleasant weather in Lyon at the beginning of February, combined with the strict environmental policies in Western Europe, makes the blue sky and white clouds quite pleasant.

However, the media and food lovers will not have time to enjoy the spring beauty of Lyon, as they will wonder who will emerge from the 32 contestants from 20 countries to win the competition.

Of course, except for the media and fans from Huaxia, very few people think that Xiao Feng's group has any chances, and many people even think that Xiao Feng, a rich man, is purely for the limelight, and does not have the ability and technology to compete!

With all kinds of questions and expectations, the Bocuse d'Or is finally about to kick off!

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