French Trip to Lille

After navigating metro tickets and closures, a very large French hypermarket plus the bag drop at our hostel, we finally met our tour guide, Luke, at the Place Général du Gaulle and enjoyed a fascinating tour of Lille‘s beautiful sights, featuring a very popular meringue shop.

On Monday evening, we also had an authentic three course French meal at a Brasserie overlooking the Place Rihour.

On Tuesday, after breakfast at our hostel, we headed out to a local climbing wall, where we saw real courage and team work demonstrated by so many of our French students.

Special mention goes to Edward, Abdullah, Alfie, Bertie plus our seasoned climbers Zed, Felix and Uly.

After climbing, we enjoyed a packed lunch and some students went to the famous Citadelle park to enjoy a game of football, expertly refereed by Mr Allen. 

Some students enjoyed some free time in the centre of Lille to explore the shops.

We all met up again and headed to the language school where students practised their French with native French speaking teachers.

After our language lessons on Tuesday afternoon, we navigated road closures and diversions and took the bus to a bowling alley where everyone enjoyed a game of bowling as well as pool and some arcade games. 

We all had pizza for dinner and crêpe à la Nutella or ice cream for dessert.

On Wednesday morning, after breakfast at the hostel, we walked to the Belfry to climb the 400 steps up to the top where the blue skies and sunshine provided fabulous views all around Lille!

After that, we headed to the Palais des Beaux Arts, one of France’s largest art musuem.

To buy our lunch, we headed to the Halles des Wazemmes, a covered food market where there was a delicious choice of cooked food.

Our journey home was smooth, scenic and picturesque and we all enjoyed a sit down after a busy few days!