Our Battlefields Tour ended with us being dropped off in Lille.  We stayed in a great hotel right in the middle of the old town opposite the main square.  Lille is the largest city in French Flanders.

We spent our time here wandering around the streets and we took a 50 min bus tour to orientate ourselves.  There are several excellent museums but after the Battlefields we felt we had done enough museums for a while.  The old town is very pretty, wide open squares.  Cobblestone streets and interesting shops, cafes and restaurants.  The Rue de la Monnaie is the most famous and busiest with lots of high end shops.  Great for window shopping.

On our final morning we had to collect our hire car from the Eurostar Terminal.  That was easy enough.  We located the car in the multi storey carpark without any problem but finding the way out was a nightmare.  We kept going around and around.  We could see the exit but we just couldn't find the way to it.  Eventually we got there and put our ticket into the machine and the boom gate didn't go up.  The attendant came and opened the boom.  Presumably we had taken too long to arrive at the exit and our ticket had expired.

The 3 gold figures in the last photo atop the Hotel de Ville represent the 3 areas, or departments.