The Hague to Lille

Most of this day would be spent on trains. We left The Hague and travelled to Antwerpe where we had 15 minutes to find our train to Lille. This should have been simple, but our train was one of a pair and so we could only identify it by time of leaving and the stated destination was confusing.

The station itself was very unusual: platforms were stacked vertically. Using different levels in a station is not that unusual, but when you can see the trains on top of each other, this was new to us.


We had a bus replacement at the end of the journey, so were later than expected, but soon settled into our hotel conveniently close to both Lille stations.

While we have passed through Lille on many occasions, we have only ever seen the route from one station to the other, which is not something of note. However, Pat had received an email from SNCF promoting Lille as a destination and was impressed. Once John had seen the photo, he was interested too!

We spent two nights here and were ready to be impressed, and so we were. The town is very well preserved and worth a visit.




















We will have more time in Lille tomorrow before taking the EuroStar to Ashford and on to Broadstairs.

- Pat and John on tour