Other cities (Photo Journal)
During my last trip, I went to a couple of cities.
After spending about a week in Paris, I went up north to a small city called Lille, just between the borderline between France and Belgium.
Even though Lille is very little known, it's actually the fifth most populated areas in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse. and has an incredibly ancient history.(according to wikipedia; the fact factory)
As soon as you arrive to Lille Europe, the main railway station, you can see this "L" shaped building and an object presumably designed by Kusama Yayoi.
Lille is also where the former French president Charles de Gaulle was born. The pictures below were taken at his house, now a museum open to the public.
I went too early in the morning that there was nobody in the house; just one person at the entrance.
The haunted atmosphere creeped me out completely and it took away any interesting historic beauty, or at least my concentration from it.
Lille was a beautiful city, just walking around the old city area is a walk through a fairy tale, but on the other hand, there isn't much to do-
I asked a French girl who had been staying at my hostel if there were any places to check out around the area and she advised me to go to Roubaix - best decision ever made during my trip in Lille.
In Roubaix, I went to La Piscine Museum; a museum that used to be a swimming pool.
You can see that they kept a piece of the pool to complement the artworks.
During my trip to Lille, I was able to take myself to Bruxelles as well.
This is one of the perks of staying in Lille, it's cheap to stay and also very convenient to travel to nearby cities in the EU.
Greeted well by Bruxelles.(Below)
Then there were the Manneken Pis(1619) and Jeanneke Pis(1985).
Apparently the one shown below is just a copy placed in the 1900s and the real 1600s Manneken Pis is installed in the Museum of the City of Brussels.
To this day, I don't understand the meaning behind these statues.
Then I celebrated nothing with a cheap glass of beer and took off back to Lille.
From Lille, I went to London.
I don't have many photos but I had a very nice time thanks to my lovely friends.
One of my lovely friends, Megu chan.
Europe, you've been great.
I will miss you.
After spending about a week in Paris, I went up north to a small city called Lille, just between the borderline between France and Belgium.
Even though Lille is very little known, it's actually the fifth most populated areas in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse. and has an incredibly ancient history.(according to wikipedia; the fact factory)
As soon as you arrive to Lille Europe, the main railway station, you can see this "L" shaped building and an object presumably designed by Kusama Yayoi.
Lille is also where the former French president Charles de Gaulle was born. The pictures below were taken at his house, now a museum open to the public.
I went too early in the morning that there was nobody in the house; just one person at the entrance.
The haunted atmosphere creeped me out completely and it took away any interesting historic beauty, or at least my concentration from it.
Lille was a beautiful city, just walking around the old city area is a walk through a fairy tale, but on the other hand, there isn't much to do-
I asked a French girl who had been staying at my hostel if there were any places to check out around the area and she advised me to go to Roubaix - best decision ever made during my trip in Lille.
In Roubaix, I went to La Piscine Museum; a museum that used to be a swimming pool.
You can see that they kept a piece of the pool to complement the artworks.
During my trip to Lille, I was able to take myself to Bruxelles as well.
This is one of the perks of staying in Lille, it's cheap to stay and also very convenient to travel to nearby cities in the EU.
Greeted well by Bruxelles.(Below)
The Grand place.
Then there were the Manneken Pis(1619) and Jeanneke Pis(1985).
Apparently the one shown below is just a copy placed in the 1900s and the real 1600s Manneken Pis is installed in the Museum of the City of Brussels.
To this day, I don't understand the meaning behind these statues.
From Lille, I went to London.
I don't have many photos but I had a very nice time thanks to my lovely friends.
London- city of Art
One of my lovely friends, Megu chan.
I will miss you.
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