Walking Tour of Lille

Despite not getting much sleep last night between going to bed late and having the fire alarm go off, I was up around 8:30 and decided to go on the free walking tour of Lille after a couple cups of coffee. It was really fun because our guide was funny and sarcastic. The whole thing was in English since none of the people in our group were French. There was a German lady, someone from Wales, and Aussie couple and another American from Manhattan. The tour lasted from 10 to 12 and then I hung out with a few others in order to be sociable and since I was a bit concerned about finding my way back. We learned a lot about the history of the city and that the French were often cheap skates when it comes to building structures except for the time they spent the equivalent of 4 million euros in order to compensate a Protestant architect who won an anonymous competition to build a Catholic church. Tomorrow I will be heading to Brussels.