I spent the month of August discovering the gorgeous city of Lille in Northern France. I went there for a clerkship at one of the city’s hospitals and I absolutely fell in love with its culture, its people and everything it had to offer. Lille is one of France’s biggest cities and yet it still has this rustic feel to it – especially in its older streets, aptly called Vieux Lille.
I made a lot of memories in that city. I won’t go down memory lane and enumerate them for you because I’m fairly certain you couldn’t care less. But I am thankful for getting the chance to go there and meet the people that I met and make those memories that I cherish now.
Xavier & Camille, our amazing French hosts and friends that made us feel at home – literally – for the entire month that we spent there, this is for you. Thank you for everything.
Here are some of the many pictures that I took of the beautiful city of Lille. I’m not a professional so these are not meant to be impeccable – but I do hope my love for the city comes across in them.
Palais des Beaux Arts
Another old street in the city
A parc bench in the city
Rue de Bethune
The city’s opera house
Vieux Lille
The view from our apartment
A statue next to Palais des Beaux Arts
A war monument
One of the city’s cathedrals
Welch – one of the city’s specialities
Inside one of Lille’s cathedrals
A mural found in one of Lille’s subway and train stations: Lille Europe
One of the specialties of the North
Beer, another specialty
Another street in the old parts of the city
One of the streets of Vieux Lile
The opera house
Gargoyles
The city’s heart – place du General De Gaulle also known as Grand Place
Lille doesn’t like Sarkozy
Another street in old Lille
These pictures were taken using a Nikon D5100 and edited using my iPhone 5′s Camera+ app.
Filed under: Photography Tagged: Architecture, arts, city grids, France, iPhone, Lille, mobile, Nature, old streets, Photography, Pictures, Streets, technology, urban exploration, urban exploration photography, vieux lille
