Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets — a black coat, grey scarf, and a Burberry check bucket bag, standing before a set of towering carved wooden doors somewhere in Lyon.

Standing before a massive ornately carved wooden double door in Lyon, France, wearing a black coat, grey scarf, jeans, over-the-knee boots, and carrying a Burberry check bucket bag

Lyon's old buildings hide these doors on every other block — golden wood, hand-carved garlands, hardware built to outlast the street around it. Worth the pause every single time.

A side profile view standing before the same carved wooden doors in Lyon, scarf catching the wind
The same doorway, a step to the side

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