Back from Lille!

Sam has stopped head-butting me for long enough that I can type a brief entry.

Good things about Lille:
-- FOOD (especially seafood, though Lille is not on the coast)
-- Hotel Alliance, a.k.a. Convent des Minimes. Even though their brickwork is pastede on yay. (Photos to follow)
-- DRINK (especially champagne, and cherry beer)
-- red panda! (in the zoo)
-- rat glue! (in a shop: not the brand I've linked to, but still Cool)
-- C&A! (we left them some stock)
-- really cool notebooks!
-- CHEEEEESE (I had a flam ch'ti for lunch, which is basically cheese with extra local cheese on a thin crepe)
-- avoiding the cocktails in the hotel, except the ones with champagne

Less cool things:
-- all the bottles in Lille and surrounding regions (not just the ones we emptied) were recycled outside our room at 7am
-- Lille station has no Left Luggage (and not much else to commend it)