Amazing. I spent two days in Lille en route from Brussels to Paris. Not only is Lille a cool town,…read morebut, the Fantastic festival is remarkable. Artwork by Nick Cave (visual/performance artist not musician) and Theo Mercier, and so much more. Art around every corner. A great experience and well worth the trip to Lille! Lille was never on my radar until this. I'd love to come back for the next Fantastic!

So very disappointing. We were looking forward to finding many vintage and antiques vendors, only…read moreto discover miles and miles of vendors selling clothing, shoes, jewelry. A better description is a huge dollar store. Also, in our research, La Braderie de Lille, boasts of mussel eating and restaurants being judged by the mound of mussel shells found out there front door. We saw no mussel shell mounds. Our last night in Lille, we asked about this... answer... "oh yeah, they use to do it years ago, but don't any longer. A health risk, I guess."