We visited Lille back in April of this year whilst doing a three month tour, by rail, of Western Europe and vowed to return -See my previous post “My New Friend Lille”.So here we are, having caught the Eurostar direct from London St Pancras into Lille Europe. Our hotel is within walking distance of theContinue reading “Christmas Shopping in Olde Worlde Lille”
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Touring Western Europe -France -My New Friend Lille
Having left Paris on Friday we took the train an hour north to the city of Lille. Sitting just 10 miles from the Belgium border, it is the tenth largest city in France with approx a million citizens and was the original capital of Flanders. We had been drawn here, en route to Belgium, byContinue reading “Touring Western Europe -France -My New Friend Lille”