Eek - am about to head off on my girly weekend to Berlin, and realised still haven't posted anything about our little weekend in Lille a few weeks ago. Last trip on Eurostar before it moves to St Pancras. Only there for about 28 hours, so not much time, but we did manage to cover a fair bit of the town. Of course, this was possible given the fact almost NOTHING is open on Sunday -- so that limted our options for our main day of travel to walking & walking some more. Which was fine, really - a great weekend for it, and we got to see many sights, including the massive street market (which is only open on Sunday - the reverse of everything else). Umm - it wasn't as cute and gift-laden as I expected... ah well - don't need to spend the money anyway!
A few selected photos:
Notting Hill Coffee -- unfortunately neither this nor 'Covent Garden Coffee' were open, so no chance to sample a Lille Latte
Meerkats at the larger than expected free zoo
A very very tall tower with supposedly a great view of the town. Open most days... except, err, Sunday
Cute little hotel if we ever go back [note to self - include more non-sundays if we do!]
1 comment:
L'Hermitage does look cute, but I don't know when I'd ever be in Lille. I wonder who was upstairs in the Notting Hill Coffee Shop?
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