LILLE (Rijsel in Flemish), northern France's largest city, surprises many visitors with its impressive architecture, the winding streets of its tastefully restored old quarter (Vieux Lille), its plethora of excellent restaurants, and bustling nightlife. It boasts a large university, a modern métro system, and a very serious attitude to culture, with some great museums. At the same time, the city spreads far into the countryside in every direction, a jumble of suburbs and factories, and for the French it remains the very symbol ... More
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LILLE (Rijsel in Flemish), northern France's largest city, surprises many visitors with its impressive architecture, the winding streets of its tastefully restored old quarter (Vieux Lille), its plethora of excellent restaurants, and bustling nightlife. It boasts a large university, a modern métro system, and a very serious attitude to culture, with some great museums. At the same time, the city spreads far into the countryside in every direction, a jumble of suburbs and factories, and for the French it remains the very symbol of the country's heavy industry and working-class politics. Lille is facing up to many of the tough issues of contemporary France: poverty and racial conflict, a crime rate similar to that of Paris and Marseille, and a certain regionalism – Lillois sprinkle their speech with a French– Flemish patois ("Ch'ti") and to some extent assert a Flemish identity.
We were in transit all damn day today: Toronto Amsterdam Amsterdam Ghent That's... what, twelve straight hours of travel? After one plane ride, three ...
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We were in transit all damn day today: Toronto Amsterdam Amsterdam Ghent That's... what, twelve straight hours of travel? After one plane ride, three train rides, and one crowded tram, we arrived at our hostel to see this taped to the front door: "CALL ME WHEN YOU ARRIVE AND I WILL OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOU" This is an ordeal. We can barely find payphones at home, let alone in a brand-new city where we don't speak the language. I kept an eye on my luggage while A. hunted down a phone to repeatedly call this guy. No answer. He went hunting for another hostel instead. Me? I got some decent pics of t...
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Good flight, good landing, awful movies. Arrived at Charles de Gaulle International Airport at 7:00 a.m., with a couple of hours to kill before ...
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Good flight, good landing, awful movies. Arrived at Charles de Gaulle International Airport at 7:00 a.m., with a couple of hours to kill before catching our train to Lille. There’s a train station is connected to CDG – it was about a 10-minute walk from our terminal. You go through a parking lot, then a subway station, and down an escalator before you can get comfy in the waiting area. And that’s when we realized that I grabbed the wrong bag from the baggage return. Walked the ten minutes back to our terminal feeling like a royal moron. I put so many dorky knickknacks on my bag so things like ...
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Next to the international train station, Crowne Plaza Lille Euralille is approximately a quarter mile from Old Town and 75
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