Lille - worth going?

[bluesky]

Anyone been to Lille?

Is it a good place for a weekend break, if so, what's there? I need it sold to me!!

We went a while back.It had a great northern European flavour.
Fantastic buildings,great cafes and restaurants.
I know they have massive flea marlets there a few times a year.

Modern art museum (outside the city centre - we had a car, but I think there are buses) is very good (but don't under any circumstances risk the toilets!). Lovely quiet town centre to ramble around. Cheap, clean, fast, regular metro system.

Aux Moules on the main pedestrian drag (Rue de Bethune?) for the best moules frites in town in fab art deco setting.

Yes, go!

I worked there as a nanny and it is a really nice city, I am sure you would love a weekend break there :)

thanks guys, so it's a place to mooch around eating and shopping with the occasional bit of culture then?!

Museum is best in France outside Louvre, apparently.

Cadogan Guide to Short Breaks in Northern France has a good chapter on Lille (as well as a lot of other, excellent recommendations for weekends across Normandy, Picardy, Nord, Pas de Calais etc)

We have not done Lille yet but really want to go. I think you have to make sure you see the Old Town as well as the modern bit round the station.

we wnet with school for a 4 day trip when i was 15 - it was great..... but all i really remember was being plastered on stella!!!

Deffo a mooching place to visit, I did lots of mooching. I did not go to the museum as it was being renovated when I lived there. Deffo take a walk around the Citadel :)