Yay!! Back to my keyboard! The last three days were amazing!! Not sure if I can remember all the things I wante dto blog about...but I'll try :)
So, I headed out to Lille after spending the day in Brugge to have my first couch surfing experience! I was staying with Cecile, a computer scientist and her boyfriend Arnaub who is Computer Science PhD student. There was another couch surfing guy staying at their place too- an Indian dude from Germany. I spent the night of the 3rd hanging out with the three of them and a couple of their friends- we 'made' Indian food for dinner and hung out at a Latin bar...in France! Talk about being multicultural :) It was fun, with us being the only ones actually danicng salsa and entertaining everyone else :P
The next day, I headed out to old town Lille where I realised all too quickly what it means to be living in Europe (or anywhere but the US) on a sunday! Everything was closed. That is everything but very expensive cafes!! Oh did I mention how expensive Europe is??!! Wait till I get to my stories about Paris.. :) But the tiny streets of Lille and the cute shops (I saw stuff from the windows :P) made a 4.00 euro coffee worth it. And it was freezing cold. Its amazing how people over there are immune to the cold- even kids walk around in skirts and gloveless (I know...I hate gloves but I was wearing two of them-in layers...it was that cold!!).
Anyways...walking around Lille was fun and so were the couple of museums I went too...I ate my first French crepe (I even have a picture of it! :)) and got my first 'authentic' French lesson...not that I remember anything! :)
So, I headed out to Lille after spending the day in Brugge to have my first couch surfing experience! I was staying with Cecile, a computer scientist and her boyfriend Arnaub who is Computer Science PhD student. There was another couch surfing guy staying at their place too- an Indian dude from Germany. I spent the night of the 3rd hanging out with the three of them and a couple of their friends- we 'made' Indian food for dinner and hung out at a Latin bar...in France! Talk about being multicultural :) It was fun, with us being the only ones actually danicng salsa and entertaining everyone else :P
The next day, I headed out to old town Lille where I realised all too quickly what it means to be living in Europe (or anywhere but the US) on a sunday! Everything was closed. That is everything but very expensive cafes!! Oh did I mention how expensive Europe is??!! Wait till I get to my stories about Paris.. :) But the tiny streets of Lille and the cute shops (I saw stuff from the windows :P) made a 4.00 euro coffee worth it. And it was freezing cold. Its amazing how people over there are immune to the cold- even kids walk around in skirts and gloveless (I know...I hate gloves but I was wearing two of them-in layers...it was that cold!!).
Anyways...walking around Lille was fun and so were the couple of museums I went too...I ate my first French crepe (I even have a picture of it! :)) and got my first 'authentic' French lesson...not that I remember anything! :)
hey i wish we could go there someday together!
ReplyDeleteI LOVED Lille when I was there. It reminded me of the set of a play, like a storybook. It was beautiful. My fav was the clock tower, somewhere on the way to the the train station....
ReplyDeleteI also noticed the closures on Sundays, and how EVERYONE rides bikes and walks everywhere. It was refreshing, despite the cost. Glad you're having fun!