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Walking in Lille
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 5 July 2011
Why were we in Lille? It had been an old, neglected town of France until twenty years ago but now it was a booming tourist place. How had that happened? We were here to explore the town, the central market and its many pedestrianised streets, to understand the Urban Heritage strategy that the French town had adopted but also to simply walk the streets and enjoy ourselves.
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Lille Book Market
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 19 June 2011
Young and old people walked about quietly through the courtyard and the passages around it, rummaging through old books and secondhand magazines, old photographs, posters and records. For us, it was a different book landscape than we were used to. The graphics were different, the text was different. Here and there in-between was a text that was familiar, an artist’s work that you had read about before or seen earlier.
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Lady in Lille
Blog: A Lady in London - 26 August 2010
Last week I got two very exciting invitations for press trips to Europe. The first was for the Eurostar Explorer Train, which would take me to one of six cities in either Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, or France. The second was for a business class flight to Berlin on BMI to celebrate the launch of [...]
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Lille: the perfect day trip from London
Blog: 501 Places - 31 July 2010
Planning a day trip from London? 90 minutes from the capital by train can take you to some interesting cities: Bristol, Southampton, Winchester, Canterbury, Stratford are just a few options. Until recently however, you would not have considered a French destination. All this changed with the introduction of the high speed line that takes the [...]Lille: the perfect day trip from London is a post from: 501 Places
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Belgium and one day in France... back to the Continent
Blog: The Amazing Dawdle - 6 July 2010
Brussels, BelgiumWe started off our journey really early in the morning – 4:15am to be exact! We had to be up and out to catch our 8am flight, and we had no idea what to expect at the airport nor on the 40 minute drive to the airport. We thought that the airport would be quiet at 6am, especially at that time of day! Our drive in only took about 35 minutes, and we easily dropped off the car in the Budget lot. No luck with a quiet airport - it was a madhouse since the school holidays had begun the day prior!
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