Lille, France Travel Blogs

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5 Countries in 1 day!
Feb 18, 2008 (1 photos)

... on a ferry on Lake Malawi in Central Africa, who I had stayed in touch with and planned to meet as he just happened to be in Europe at the same time) we set off for a long days driving. We drove though France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and in to Denmark.

Land of crazy people and dog poop
Jun 16, 2008

... the monument and back. http://images.google.ca/images?hl=fr&q=lille&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Lille is a pretty place, but the people here are strange. Lots of people randomly talking to themselves, and sometimes to us... one guy ...

School Field Trip
Oct 13, 2009

... a very elaborate Notre Dame Cathedral here which we toured and sketched. After we visited these two places, we then went to Lille, the fifth largest city in France, by the way it is at the top of my list of places visited so far. Our hostel was based in ...

Ice-skating and Lille
Mar 27, 2009 (7 photos)

... Lille that had a bunch of cute boutiques.  We also grabbed some Chinese food for a snack.  After that we had to head back to the train station to get home.  It was nice to see another city in France, even if it was only for a day. 

Goodbye Paris, Hello Lille
Nov 25, 2009

... and thousands of other pieces of art, as well as the Chateau de Versailles.  Anyways, Paris was amazing, and now I'll be in Lille for a couple of days.. My European trip is coming to an end in about 2 weeks or so, when I leave from Dusseldorf on the ...

Random Train to Lille!
Oct 25, 2008 (7 photos)

Random Train to Lille! Ended up in Lille France only to find out that there are no rooms anywhere in the entire town... Perfect... So I do what any traveler does....start begging! I was able to grab someone's cancellation and well, thank goodness it's ...

Lille, Champagne & Brugge (Part 1)
Mar 2, 2008 (13 photos)

... So two days later we were on a Eurostar train headed to Lille for the weekend.  This was my first trip to France and after experiencing the British cuisine for the last few weeks...you can imagine my excitment at my first visit to this culinary ...

05/07/09
Jul 5, 2009 (6 photos)

... I was born on the 6 of May. Spooky if you ask me. We then started to talk about why we were staying in Lille and discovered that nothing was stopping us to go to England earlier than previously thought. So we arrived at the hotel changed our train ticket ...

Lille
Jun 22, 2004 (5 photos)

My Moroccan adventure started in Lille, where I was studying for a term at the uni. Lille's a great place and 'the Leeds group' real and adopted were fantastic. It was a lovely relaxing few months. Lille was City of Culture that year and there was loads ...

Lille, France
Aug 10, 2005 (3 photos)

Boozin' in Lille

A Little of Lille
Nov 15, 2007 (50 photos)

... traffic and is just across the street. Both train stations face Old Town, which is just a few minute's walk. Although Lille, France's fourth largest city, is modern and well-diversified, and it features Europe's only automated metro system, the core of ...

Found Lille
May 11, 2005 (2 photos)

wow! It is like I have woken from a dream. i am impressed by the speed of the TVG trains! This is a little weird typing this message because it is a french keyboard; a little different. it was a little difficult to find a place to stay; but i got a ...

Lille
Feb 26, 2008 (30 photos)

... on the motorway near Arras in france.  Pritty good for the start of the journey, getting the first lift in France before even entering the country! After John dropped us at the station, we encountered our first "omen" in the last ...

les fetes de noel...bientot le depart!
Dec 26, 2008 (2 photos)

Bonjour a tous! ca y est les cadeaux sont deballés et j ai adoré le superbe globe de mon dernier petit neveu! les merveilles du monde ..musique du monde...quiz sur les differentes cultures! tout ca accessible a un petit de 2 ans! moi j ai compris comment ca ...

Lille - England v USA
Sep 8, 2007 (4 photos)

... the city where we actually want to go for us - oh, no. The Eurostar was great, it got us into the centre of Lille, where we were staying, to watch the un-fancied English team play the even-less-fancied Team America. From a rugy purist's perspective, the ...

06/07/09
Jul 6, 2009

Over Lille was a non happening event as we just enjoy a sleep in I did manage to go to the post office to send a couple of Parcells back home and as we had lunch in town, we manage to buy a couple of movies (in English) and a few French books for myself. ...

Les petites differences...
Jul 26, 2008

... fait bizarre de passer d'endroits qu'on n'a jamais vus a un autre que j'ai toujours connu... Florilege des petites differences Perou-France : - Pas besoin de negocier le prix de la course avec mon pere pour rentrer a la maison - Quand on dort chez ...

Lille, France
Mar 30, 2005 (14 photos)

Visited the town (now a city) that my great grandfather (maternal) was from. His name was "Frank" Chevalier.

Greetings From Lille
Sep 9, 2008 (14 photos)

azerty keyboard makes it hard to type. Will write more later and fix the Paris\Brighton photographs;

Preparation du voyage
Oct 25, 2008 (2 photos)

Bonjour a tous Voila la première entrée du blog! Les formalités ont commencé! J'ai le visa indien. Ca avait l'air tres compliqué et finalement en passant par action visa ca s est révélé trés simple: envoie recommandé et j'ai recu le tout trois semaines plus tard. ...

Christmas markets
Dec 6, 2008 (35 photos)

Jess, Shona and I got up really early today and met at Kings Cross at 6.15am on a Saturday!! We caught the Eurostar to Lille, France to spend the day there and visit the Christmas markets. The plan was to sleep on the train because it was so early, but by ...

Day 1....
Sep 20, 2009

... to get it.  Then got to ferry where I got told, I think its P & O, but not really sure which ferry company I booked with......ok, this will be a new adventure.   Got to Lille, had a great dinner, and now about to head to normandy.....

Journal - Trip to Europe 2008
Aug 8, 2008 (1 photos)

... we finished at midnight.  Tomorrow morning we say goodbye and return to Germany.  The two things I will miss the most of France are the Beer (mostly from Belgium) and the atmosphere.  It Germany so far it is the speed on the highways (oh so ...

Salutations from Lille!!!
Oct 23, 2008 (10 photos)

Hi to everyone from Lille, France! Many of you who have checked to facebook have asked where Lille is ... it's in the North of France, not too far from the Belgium border. We organised to meet up with Karen (Ian's cousin) in Lille, which was also where ...

Déjà vu ... back in Lille
Dec 20, 2008 (1 photos)

... us shopping so that we could buy some special champagne & cheese supplies for going back to Mark & Vanessa's. Our trip back to France was really relaxing and nowhere near long enough. But we are running out of time now and there is still so much left ...

June 16: Lille
Jun 17, 2008

just really stayed there to not have to spend 2 nights in paris

bienvenue chez les chtis
May 25, 2008

euh chnord, on y revient toujours

Another day in Lille
Oct 12, 2007

Yesterday I went to the art gallery here, its the 2nd largest in France after the Louvre. Problem was, that although it is the 2nd largest, it is only half full when there is no temporary exhibition. So it didn't take up much of the day. So I went to ...

Lille
Oct 10, 2007

Well I'm back in France, Lille to be exact. There isn't much here really, just chilling out for a few days before I have to get on the plane on Saturday. I am not heading back to Paris until I fly outta here as I can catch the TGV to the airport and it ...