Lille Travel Blogs

One of the main goals of my friend Jacob on his stay here in Brussels was to visit Lille. I had been there many times over the last couple of years. Besides being a very nice city to visit, it is by many Belgian considered as a very good shopping place, especially if you are looking for clothing.&n…

so I went to Lille for the weekend. Lille is a big city in Northern France, its approximately the 10th largest city in France and is very beautiful.

We woke up at 10 am Sunday morning, but we stayed in for another hour and half until we left Sanne's place. So at 11.30 am we went to a bakery where you can sit down and ordered 2 pains au chocolat and some coffee. Yes, indeed, we had our breakfast at noon :). After that we went to the town cente…

I have to start this off by mentioning what I won't miss about London: mean people on the buses and tube.  Everyone knows the etiquette: move as far onto the train as possible, sit in just one seat on the bus.  But today I saw a girl sit on the aisle seat and put her bag in the other on t…

Since I live on the French-Belgian border, I often hop across the border to the Nord département of France. This region is also known as French Flanders. There are two main regions: To the south you have a densly populated and industrial area around the city of Lille. This region is known as Roman…

If you ever have a spare weekend twiddling your thumbs trying to decide what to do, why not try travelling to France using the Eurotunnel.  If you book early you can actually get a return ticket for £49.  Don't forget that this is for a car full of people, you could easily travel on a bu…

We decided to stay in Lille for one more day, mainly to see some of the sites as yesterday had been all about football! Our hotel was fully booked for tonight however, so we made tracks and were lucky once again to find another hotel, just around the corner in fact. It wasn't as nice as our previou…

I'm now halfway through my third year in Europe and things are constantly still amazing and exciting me. I see that the focus of my travelling has changed and I've grown alot since I first set out. Here's a few things I've been up to recently.

In this blogs I will post photos of and little stories about the places I've been to in the past.

A weekend trip to Lille, France.

In 1995, my friend Darla and I embarked on, what can only be discribed as a "Whirlwind" tour: Ten countries in eleven days! No, we weren't crazy, we just wanted to get a taste of EVERYTHING! Neither of us had been to the continent before, so we did what we could.

I am totally, utterly lost. I am at the wrong train station and I do not speak French. Surely this is it for me. Surely I will die here, miles from home, and my body will never be found. I am a goner.I check my already dog-eared Eurail timetable, and sure enough, I'm supposed to catch a train in Li…

Five days left of this trip. I'm sorry to see it ending so soon, but I can't wait to get back home again.We are currently on a train leaving Lille and going to Brugge. We drove out here to Lille after spending some time at Versailles.That was quite cool. So much splendour...Hard to imagine living i…

I had been in Lille many times and I like the city more and more. There are loads of shops and many Belgian like to come there for their Saturday shopping. The old part of the city is very attractive to walk in and I wanted to show my friend Jacob this on his last visit here in Brussels. We walke…

the best time i ever had so far,travelling to africa through europ.