We Promise You Will Love Lille, Too. (Americans in France)

On our recent trip from our home in Amsterdam to the Paris Summer Olympics, we had the chance to explore the French city of Lille for a few hours. We know we could only see a small slice of this beautiful city in the time we had, but it ended up being so fun!

Crepes, interesting regional desserts, and an amazing old church... Just our kind of day trip!

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We are Nate and Katrina, two Americans living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and traveling as much as we can to see what there is to see! Call us expats, immigrants, whatever... just call us already.

We balance work life with travel... as best we can! We would love to visit every country in Europe while we live here, and definitely keep a list of our global “must visit” destinations.

We try to give you a true view of us and how we travel and explore the world. Lots of food, definitely some jokes, and probably some swearing…. Hope you enjoy taking these trips with us!

0:00 Intro
0:21 Exploring Lille town center
2:01 Lunch at Creperie Beaurepaire Lille
4:19 Notre Dame Cathedral Lille
6:04 Aux Marveilleux de Fred
8:05 Lime bikes to the Citadel Lille
10:25 Gaufres at Méert
13:41 Wrap up in Lille

[tdeladeriere]

This is my town. 4 hrs is a bit short to explore, especially if you sit to lunch, but 8 hours is enough. Everybody will agree that the façace of Notre Dame de la Treille is a choice, lol, but I think that's also what makes the beauty of Lille, the contrast between tradition and modernity. If you were there this Monday, I'm not surprised you were begging for cold air. It was insanely hot.

[Lara-jhxf]

Another great video thanks for sharing France with us❤

[JustinCase]

Hi, I'm French and live in Lille. Great video and well done making Lille look so good! You were lucky with the weather, not so much with visiting on a Monday 😄. The inside of the old stock exchange (la vieille bourse) at the end, closed on mondays, definitely is something to see, one of my favorite places in Lille. Google up some images of the inside. There are videos too.
One thing: that belfry you showed at the end is NOT the "belfry of Lille", it is a smaller belfry, that of the new stock exchange. Don't worry, you're not the first tourist making this mistake. The belfry of Lille is at city hall, and is 100 meters high (one third of the Eiffel tower).and a little off the town center where you were. You could have seen it in the distance from one corner of the Grand Place, whose real name btw is Place du Général de Gaulle, because he was born in Lille and you can visit his birthplace).

The cathedral façade is an acquired taste, but it has one interesting feature: the special marble used is transparent, so the sun shines through it, and at night they turn on some lights inside and the façade seems to glow when you're outside.

The dessert "merveilleux" (meaning marvellous of course) is pronounced something like Mare Vay uh. Rhymes with French for "2": deux. Pretty easy I'd say, once you know it?

Thank you again for the video. Next time stay a little longer and try the lively night life. Lille looks beautiful at night too. 😎

[tnickknight]

I love the couples pondering post he has down pat, vital for a good relationship 😀

[HelenGill]

I visited Lille as a day trip from Paris. I bought the city pass which got me a bus tour and public transport plus entry to some attractions. Climbed up a Tower, went to the art gallery; van Gogh's painting of Cows is there. It was on loan when I was there but I caught up with it later in Paris. Lille makes a nice day trip. Just checked my photos the Cathedral looks as it does in your shots normally. You can buy those meringues in Paris too.

[minuty_]

Siema, świetna prezentacja. Pozdrawiam i oczywiście z przyjemnością zostawiam 👍

[MartinWebNatures]

Very nice video guys. My complements you dare to bike with much less lanes then in 🇳🇱

[axelferis]

Cool view of Lille! 1/ Katrina continue to pronounce "Leo" rather "Lil" (again me yes 😄 ) lol. 2/The waffles from Meert are sweet and you have vergeoise ones "brown sugar" and Vanilla like you eat in the video. The best are vergeoise and it is like that we eat them here. sweetness not hard unlikely their belgian couterparts 😉 .

[Lootensansy]

I think Lille is more a belgium
City instead fresh city😂

[belazarius]

12:40 They're hit or miss. But here they look dry and certainly not fresh or artisanal.

[threeshocks]

Holy snot I can trace my heritage to the monarch side of my family, , , , algorithms what the hell

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[remizeeland]

Hé. Katrina, you are becoming more and more a Dutch girl/woman. Riding a bycicle wearing a skirt. Kudos!

[JanuTrance]

You 2 really complaining about the weather a lot on your travel vlogs (too hot, too cold, too wet, too windy) I think you really starting to become real Dutch folks.

[andersoncpu]

I say this as a joke so please take it that way. Katrina, if Nate were to get you an electric bike think of how the lack of exercise would negatively effect your only fans page. Again, just kidding 😁

[brunol-p_g]

These aren’t crèpes, they are galettes. Galettes are salty, brown coloured and crèpes are sweet, light coloured 😉