Lille
Travel Blogs from Lille, France
5 Countries in 1 day!
... 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 ...
Land of crazy people and dog poop
... to 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 ...
Bientôt le départ
Hé hé ! L'Amérique latine, nous voici nous voilà très très bientôt !!! Plus que quelques heures avant le décollage... L'excitation et l'appréhension sont 2 émotions qui se battent en duel en ce moment. Le départ est ...
School Field Trip
... 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
... 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 ...
feeling foreign in France
... a stoop and go to sleep in a youth hostile with scary bedding and a shared toilet down the hall. Well, I am in France, so nothing can be that bad :-) Off to check out the city. More updates later when I can find a normal keyboard ...
Goodbye Paris, Hello Lille
... 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 ...
les impressions...
To say the least, my first week and a half in France has been a whirlwhind of overstimulation on so many levels. Amongst eating unbelievably delicious meals, exploring the city on foot, and making genuine friends, it has been ...
Lille, Champagne & Brugge (Part 1)
... 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
... and 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 ...
Lille
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 ...
Found Lille
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 ...
Road and Track Day
Now that all the troops had arrived safely it was time for the trip across to Nurburgring. The German Touring Cars (DTM) had a round of their championship series at Nurburgring 6-8 August, so the opportunity to check out some of the most exciting race ...
La vie quotidienne
... and the power of monsieur propre - yes, Mr. Clean. Probably my favourite literal translation I have yet to come across in France...but who wouldn't be entertained by a cleaning product called monsieur! Anyways, those who know me at ...
Lille
... 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!
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 ...
La fin de la fin.
... , but of course the French banking system complicated things and took a half hour from me. As always, c'est la vie en France - I now understand all too well why they have this expression. Although I will not miss bizarre bureaucracy, dog poo on every ...
Lille - England v USA
... 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, ...
06/07/09
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. ...
An ice-cream in Lille anyone?
I decided on a quick stop over in Lille on the way (well, sort of!) to Paris. I used to study there for about 6 months rather long time ago and I love going back every now and then to see how things are changing from one visit to the next. The ice-creams ...
A Little of Lille
... train 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 ...
Lille, France
Visited the town (now a city) that my great grandfather (maternal) was from. His name was "Frank" ...
C'est foux!
The word foux, which means crazy, has been frequenting my vocabulary slightly more often than it does in Canada! This makes sense I suppose, but I think after the past week I should probably take it down a knotch. My life has basically been a vicious ...
Here we are in the chti's Country
... small blanket of ice as the weather is getting colder. We arrived at our destination (Roncq in the North of France near Lille) without any hitches. The car drove well and is extremely comfortable with it's special suspension. Madame ...
My life in alliterations
... indeed. The final component of the alliteration triangle came to us while having a tour of the vintage shops of Lille with an Italian fashionista named Valentina. And in this confer I'm not talking about your cliche designer-wearing diva. Valentina ...
Más lluvia: Lille (Francia)
... dos horas a Dover???? (no lo recuerdo). Un tío majo que me ha dejado sensación de haber sido trotamundos. A unos 10 kms de Lille me interceptan en una gasolinera dos camioneros españoles que se enrollan de cojones. Entre eso y lo del GPS decido ir al ...


