What I didn't know before our stay was that a film festival was taking place in Lyon. This led to autograph hunters standing outside the door. It wasn't really a bother.

Once I saw a guy in a dark suit with a tie and white sneakers (in the past, you would have been escorted out for that) taking pictures of me in front of the door. Later, the guy went to the elevators with a bodyguard (well, more of a guy from the local martial arts school walking alongside with an important face - real bodyguards act differently). Waiting for the next elevator (I would have done something bad to the guy in the elevator) was the worst inconvenience. I googled who the guy with the horrible hairdo was – Benicio del Toro, who was an Oscar winner, but whose name was unknown to me until then (and still is).