The church St Sauveur and the Sport Palast.

Here a view on the Church St Sauveur in Lille and the Sport-Palast. In the evening.
Perle de Rosée

The church St Sauveur.

Here this church from which I think it's a church of the twentieth century is in an old byzantine style. It is also not far from Paris, when you are going from the railway stations to the town hall with the big Beffroi.
Clara.

The belgian Lion : Le lion Belge.

You know Lille is not far away from Belgium and here is a restaurant called Le Lion Belge, The Belgian Lion. It is also near the Railway Station Lille Flandres. In this part of the town there are many cafe-houses, but you can find them overall in the town, from the big café for the rich peaple where you drink a coffee cup or a tea cup with a piece of chocolade to the café de quartier where the men which live not far are drinking too much alcohol, especially beer of the North or belgian beer. Above the white house with the square white stones is typical for the town style of the end of the nineteen century. The house in the back is like you see in renovation.

Clara.

Chinese Restaurant.

In the Lille Metropole like in every big town are many foreign kitchen restaurants like this chinese restaurant, which is near the railway station Lille Flandres. I don't know if somebody can read the Chinese letters. Perharps Lisi ? We would like to have a translation. Above on the left is the Japanese Word Karaoké for a competition of singing with play-back. These competitions are held the most time in cafés and restaurants and are only for non-professional singers. The people of the North of France loves singing and play music.
Clara.

Le bistrot d'Angèle 2.

Another view of the 'Bistrot d'Angèle". You can see on the blackboard with the name of the meals it is also a restaurant with typical meals of North of France.
Clara

Le bistrot d'Angèle. A "estaminet".

The North People of France like to meet in the cafés, especially the men, but also the students, and so on... The old word for these cafés are in the North of France "estaminets". But an other word is also "bistrot" . But I think "bistrot" is a name of the whole France and estaminet is a word only of the North. Estaminet is a beautiful word, I think of old french. The Bistrot d'Angèle, or Angèle (woman name) 's pub, is near the railway station Lille Flandres.

Clara.

Are you hungry ? North people eat "frites".

One of the best loved meal of the North People of France (so like the belgians) is "Frites". "Frites" are made of roasted fine pieces of potatoes. You eat them with a sausage like this one, the most time with "Mayonnaise". I take this photo at the outside service of a "Frites" restaurant near the railway station "Lille Flandres".
Clara.
Comment by Kitty (Netherlands) :
Hi ClaraBeing Dutch I was told that the Belgiums are the inventors of frites (patat friet- fryed patatoes) You should check the album Astrix and the Belgiums.In Holland it is a famous snack and meal too. Almost every household has a fryingpan to bake them.We also eat the frites with mayonaisse that tastes completely different from the mayonaisse in France. Come and visit Holland one day. It isn't that far from France.
vendredi, mai 26, 2006 1:09:06 AM

The railway station Lille-Flandres.

So, we arrived in Lille with the TGV, Train à grande Vitesse (High Speed Railway) (not in reality I came with the TER : Trans-Express-Régional). And we looked at the Railway Station Lille-Europe, at the Place de la Déesse and now we are looking at the Railway Station Lille-Flandres. It is a railway station for the regional trains and the little trains to Belgium like the trains to Tournai/Dornijk, Anvers/Antwerpen or Ostende. You can find here also the TGV to Paris ( a part of them) and some other Trains de Grandes Lignes like the Calais-Bâle (Calais-Basel). The trains to London, other french towns like Montpellier are in Lille-Europe. I toke this photo at the end of March as I went to a course of informatic for teachers of german. I toke the photo in the evening so that the lights were burning. You can see also a newspaper stand.

Clara.

Vertical (Scrapbook 8).

Here the last picture of my scrapbook of Lille 2004. Then we shall go to recent pictures. Which are not already in scrapbooks. It's almost the same picture as in the last message (just below). But the photo is on another side. But you can see a little more the old flamish houses of the place. You know, Lille was a flamish town until the french king Louis XIV toke the place in 1671. I was at the feast 1971 for the 300th anniversary of Lille as french town as I was young. But now I think it is not fair from Louis XIV to have make this old flamish town french. It was in the middle age and Renaissance a big place for the trade of textils. And has a flamish culture. The textil industry was also the main industry of the two big towns Roubaix and Tourcoing in the XIXth century and in the first half of the XXth century.The crisis of the Textil Industry came in the sixties/seventies when came the chemical textil industry.

I already published this part of my album in La Page de Dominique et Paul.
clara/cosima/dominique/dominika.

The godness of Lille (Grand Place). (scrapbook 7).

Here is the "Great Square" of Lille or Grand Place. The official name of this place is Place du Général de Gaulle. But the non-official name of the square is the Place de la Déesse (in english the Place of the Godness). The old people of Lille and of the Métropole of Lille give it that name.You can see the Godness here on the top of the column. It's the reason why the people gave this second name to the place. Perhaps it's is its really old name.

In the back of the photo you have the second Beffroi, the Beffroi of the Nouvelle Bourse. I like this one better than the big Beffroi which is on the list of the french Beffrois of the World Heritage of the Unesco. All this Beffrois or town-towers, are in the Regions North-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie. They came 2005 to the list of the World Heritage. Dunkerque has its two town towers in the World Heritage, but Lille only one.

The big black columns where part of the decoration for Lille 2004, and now they are no more there.

I published this part of my scrap-book also in La Page de Dominique et Paul in November 2005, but without explanations.

Clara, Amalia, Dominique-Dominika.

Lille 2004, entrance of Euralille and Lille 2004, the sculpture for the railway station Lille-Flandres (Scrapbook 6).

This is another page of my scrapbook, I didn't explain what it is in La Page de Dominique et Paul, so I'm doing it here. On the left you can see a sculpture (a modern one)... It was in front of the railway station Lille-Flandres. It is the old railway station where are the departure of the regional trains and a few national and international trains, the most of this last ones to Belgium.
The great international trains have their departure in Lille Europe (no need to take a taxi. It is not fare). There are there the Eurostar to London and Brussels, ans the other TGVs (Train à Grande Vitesse). So coming again to speak of the sculpture, it was in the fountain in front of the railway station. On the right picture is the entrance of Euralille at the time of Lille 2004. Lille was at a time in the competition to organize the olympic games of 2000. But it lost the competition and became instead of this the right to be european main town of Culture for the year 2OO4.
Clara/Amalia/dominique/dominique/dominika.

Anoher time, the bunch of flowers of Lille 2004 (Scrapbook 5)

A photo of the bunch of flower which I didn't already published. Another page of my scrapbook.
Clara/dominique

Bunch of flowers at Euralille (Lille 2004)- (Scrapbook 4)

Here again the same bunch of flowers of Lille 2004. It is held as a artistic work and stay until to-day. Lille 2004 was the official name of all was what organized in Lille as Lille was "European town of Culture" or in french "Capitale Européenne de la Culture". It was in the year 2004. Each year is an other european town "Main European Town of Culture". Graz, Weimar, Cork were already on the european programm. In the programm of Lille were many things which I didn't approve. For example they made much street decoration, like they make each year also by the Inattendus or the Folies in Maubeuge. But there were also a big cultural programm. And a giant parade. Unfortunately I was not at the giant parade. Here the giant of my town : Jeanjean. (Cliquez sur son nom).

I published already this page of my scrapbook in La Page de Dominique et Paul on November 2005.

Clara/Amalia/Perle de Rosée/dominique.

The towers and its flowers (Scrapbook 3).

Here is the third scrapbook page about Lille. I published already this picture here. It's always the tower with its flower, but one year before the other picture. The photos of my scrapbook were taken in July 2004 as I accompanied young french, german, and tschechish people to Lille in my Europe-comitee of Anor.
Amalia/Clara/dominique