It's amazing what an internet search and the want to get something accomplished can yield. So a few days before our free weekend came up, some skillful maneuvering of the web landed us on the Eurolines website booking bus tickets to Lille France. Victoria, Autumn, Supriya, Adrienne Becca and I met up with Erin and Ayumi at the Gare du Nord stop and found the pick up local for our adventure to begin! So of course the bus was wicked late in getting there but alas we made it to Lille which is about 19 km from the Belgian border. When we arrived, Adrienne and I got separated from the group within two minutes from arriving...but in our defense a really cute French boy was asking us for help (but we couldn't help him out). After Autumn 'found us' we left on the metro towards the hostel. When we arrived at the stop, Supriya and Victoria's awesome mental GPS skills got us in the right direction towards the Hostel which was of course closed until 1600 (we arrived around 1330). So off we went for Chinese food in France. When we finished eating the other group caught up with us and we started checking out the local churches and monuments until we could enter the hostel.
The hostel was not at all as bad as I was imagining.... actually I think if most hostels are like this one they are pretty cool. We were handed a key and sheets and we went upstairs to claim beds and make them. It was great fun (as fun as making your bed can be) and we departed again for the city. We saw many sites, including La Place de la Republique, a statue dedicated to M. Pasteur and la Porte du Paris. Lille is such a lovely and quaint city with very friendly people. Later that day and into the evening, we had some down time before some of us deciding to explore the night life. Lille, for being a small city, had lots of options and we had a fabulous time dancing in what may or may not have been a gay club. It was very good times.
The next morning we ate breakfast at the hostel and then set out again to finish our sight-seeing. We ended up at La Grand Place and later we walked towards the northwest? part of town where we stumbled upon a restaurant advertising 2euro crepes...a must stop and must have if in France! We entered the restaurant and ordered crepe au chocolat and to our dismay they didn't have any!!!! :( We ordered coffee instead but the disappointment must have been to great for the staff for they promptly made a batch of crepe for us! They were delicious!!!!
Alas it was time to make our way to the bus station and bid adieu to the ville of Lille.
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