Nord-Pas-de-Calais Vacations, Nord-Pas-de-Calais Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

I had only heard possitive about Lille and it should be a town to be enjoyed. Lille is the 10th largest city in France with its 220.000 inhabitants in the city center and counting the suburbs the total population amounts to 1.2 millions where of 100.000 are students. Every year 400.000 tourist visit this citys tourist office and today I was one of them. Lille has got a vey nice historic centre, with old houses and mansions that look like those of Brussels or Amsterdam.   The city...

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.

Like I said in the intro,  we'd been here before but we only saw the memorial and the near by trenches.   We saw then same thing this time also but added a few other things like Cemeteries, monuments and memorials.  There is a part near the trenches where you can go in the tunnels but that was closed when we went.  I think someday I would like to go back and do that,  reminds me of Verdun.  So first we visited the Canadian memorial then headed on over to the...

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 the bus, and a lady scream at people for not moving in and letting her on the train even when there was no room.  Icky.  Come on people, have a little consideration. But I do appreciate on...