Sunday morning.
Late start and it's sunny, so we go up to Wazeemes market for breakfast. It turns out that today, as well the day all of Europe has to vote in the EU elections, is also Mother's day in France.

Mother's Day Flowers

The market is awash with colour and fragrance of the many and various flowers for sale this morning. We have moved in to the apartment next door as this one has a washing machine, the old one didn't. The reason we booked here was to use the washing machine and to have secure parking. The owner was very helpful in allowing us to move from one to the other, particularly as he was on holiday in Greece at the time. So we spend the rest of the day, lazing around while the washing gets done. I think I only went out again to see if anything was open for me to buy something for tea. There was, we didn't starve.
Just something we've noticed is the shopping hours, late starts and closures as I expected, but weekends in town, supermarkets are open for shorter hours early and big surprise, most of the fuel stations in town close at 6pm every day. We were very nearly caught out with that one.

Monday, sunny again, some clouds though.

Another day at home, after our very busy week and lots of driving, while not long distances we have covered some territory. The WW1 battlefields cover about an 80 mile radius form Lille. Today we walked across town to find out where we catch the train to Amsterdam on Thursday and to see where we drop off the hire car as we will be coming into the station from a different route from the one we left. At the Euraille Centre, as well as trains, there is a fabulous three story shopping mall.

Roubai Gate in old city ramparts

 Do you think I could find a pair of bathers to fit...not on you life. Now I'm sure nude bathing will be frowned upon in Dubai so it's pretty important that I find a pair soon. Oh that I were a size 6. (not that I ever was.)
After lunch here, we walked home....the long way. We walked around one side of the perimeter of the city. Not that we were lost, just misplaced. We did discover that there's a fabulous park along the canal at the other end of our street, so it was a good walk.

Lille Canal

Tuesday...so it MUST be Belgium
Yes today we were, In Brugge
What a beautiful city, it's only a 50 min drive from Lille, so we left late, parked outside the city and walked in.
We'd had a recommendation to have lunch at one of the breweries. The Half Moon, and we didn't need to see beer being made again, so we skipped the tour and had a great lunch with a couple of good beers.

The very best Waffles ever.

We then hopped on a canal tour, which took us around all the old town and was fantastic, the beauty of this town can been seen everywhere. There are shops selling all the usual tourist tat but amongst that there is some delicate lace, delicious chocolate and good beer. Rick says 2 outa 3 aint bad!

Bottle shop and Chocolate shop, side by side, someone's happy 😃

We are almost at the end of out time in France and it's been so good. Being once again in a smaller city makes it easier to feel more comfortable as we go about the town.