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we are please to welcome you in Lille on 23 to 25 of august 2019

For those who arrive earlier or leave later see more here
questions about phone numbers see here and postcodes here an ATM in here
You will find a short guide of place we visit here

MEETING PROGRAM :

Friday 23.08.2019 for people already arrived

on afternoon feel free to visit ATM in to find or some beautiful museums
we'll meet at 6:15 pm at the Tourist office Place Rihour (Palais Rihour) here Subway Rihour
(booked for jack) 6:45 pm restaurant at Alcide restaurant since 1880 here French non official menu call +33 320 40 80 00

Saturday 24.08.2019

morning :
meeting point here 10:00 am
(booked) 10:00 and 10:30 am lille belfry = Unesco's World Heritage subway Mairie de Lille
18 persons at a time, entrance fee 6 € (i had to pay before when i booked so i prepare change)
then hotelhermitagegantois
In this wonderful place, we can have a drink, coffee, or anything else. and have a visit of the site.
As example, a coffee+visit costs 5€ . here
then Eglise Saint Maurice here

(booked for jack) 12h30 Lunch in Flunch self service rue de Tournai here

afternoon :
old stock exchange here direction to Old Town district
(booked) 2:00 pm Hospice contesse Museum here
entrance fee 2,60 € (+ 2€ for audioguide)

Notre dame de la treille Cathedral
(stairway for group photography) here


(booked) 4:00 pm birthplace of Charles de Gaulle here
OR
Visit ATM #4 in
(booked for jack) 7:00 pm restaurant Brasserie la chicorée here See English menu call : +33 320 54 81 52

Sunday 25.08-2019
options :
Lens : Tourist information call : +33 321 67 66 66 mon-sat 9h30 am - 6pm
Musée du Louvre-Lens free entrance for Time gallery and a cafeteria for lunch (! no ATM in museum)
Arras : Tourist information call : +33 321 51 26 95 mon-sun 10h-12 am 2-6 pm
Arras 17h century square, Boves (ancient limestone quarries), Fine Arts Museum (+temporary exhibition about Versailles Treaty), Wellington Tunnels and Vauban Citadel,
Phil & Jack

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What about the menu of Saturday evening?

I hope for exxxxxcellent food

claudio vda wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2019 8:59 pm What about the menu of Saturday evening?

I hope for exxxxxcellent food

French food !
And the gastronomy of Hauts de France is one of the best one (under the Sud-Ouest one of course )

Kleman wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:32 pm
the gastronomy of Hauts de France

I found really amazing the fact that a land without mountains is called "Hauts de Quelquechose"
If the Pas-de-Calais is the "Hauts de France", what are the "Basses"? The regions under the sea?

In french "haut" and "bas" means:
-North and South (Haute Normandie, Basse Normandie, Haute Corse...)
or
-Upstream and Downstream (Bas Rhin (in North), Haut Rhin (in South ))

What a beautiful language !

Kleman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 6:37 pm In french "haut" and "bas" means:
-North and South (Haute Normandie, Basse Normandie, Haute Corse...)
or
-Upstream and Downstream (Bas Rhin (in North), Haut Rhin (in South ))

What a beautiful language !

Yes, usually the North is in the upper part of the map, but many pedagogues advise against a systematic use of "up" = N and "down" = S in primary schools in oder to avoid confusion in the children that may think that North is actually upper than South, making the Rhine something unnatural (flowing from S to N) and the Rhône natural (flowing from N to S)

On the other hand, I noticed that names of the new French regions are really... interesting, sometimes creating something similar to colonies

Let's use a little bit of logic.

New York a colony, the name comes from the old town of York, UK
New Zealand a colony, the name comes from the old region of Zeeland, NL
Louvain-la-Neuve someone came from the old town of Leuven, founding a new university
New Orleans French people in America, also here something related with colonies
New Aquitaine and where TF is the OLD one ?

But I am very off topic

claudio vda wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:13 am New York a colony, the name comes from the old town of York, UK
New Zealand a colony, the name comes from the old region of Zeeland, NL
Louvain-la-Neuve someone came from the old town of Leuven, founding a new university
New Orleans French people in America, also here something related with colonies
New Aquitaine and where TF is the OLD one ?

This is not off topic. Another example from the Lille area:

Villeneuve d'Ascq : Ascq new town. This is the new town of Ascq created in 1970 from a gathering of several municipalities, including Ascq. When is Asq now? Same place with no official administrative status but great history. Same as with Aquitaine.

claudio vda wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:13 am
New Aquitaine and where TF is the OLD one ?

You can find the old one here (so it's not very far away..........)

Hello where is the meeting place for Friday.


Parodien

G.Mueller wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 2:09 pm Hello where is the meeting place for Friday.

A restaurant to be annouced soon

Jack

Hello
it's ok we booked restaurants for evening dinner

Friday :
6:45 pm restaurant at Alcide restaurant since 1880 here ( coordinates : 50.637692 N, 3.063074 E )
Saturday :
7:00 pm restaurant Brasserie la chicorée here

hope to meet you there

Phil & Jack

Very good "La Chicorée" !
Memory of amazing "soupe à l'oignon" after a sleepless night

claudio vda wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2019 8:59 pm What about the menu of Saturday evening?

I hope for exxxxxcellent food

here is an English menu for saturday evening at restaurant La Chicorée Place Rihour here

Phil & Jack

Good news
The 45th G7 summit will be held on August 24–26, 2019, in Biarritz, France.
we meet in Lille at the same time, just one thing the football match in ligue1 between Lille and Saint-Etienne is delayed from 25/08 to 28/08
so 50 000 people won't be in lille on sunday
Jack