THE BASICS Currency Euro Rate of exchange (August 2024) £1 = €1.19 US$1 = €0.93 Time GMT+1 Electricity 220v International telephone code +33 Useful telephone numbers police 112 ambulance 112 fire 112 ABBREVIATIONS &...
Laurence Phillips (w laurencephillips.com) has been escaping to France since childhood and has written many and varied guides to the country, including the updated Lazy France guide Marseillan and a Lot of Languedoc and a companion to...
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Nobody was more surprised than I when Bradt decided to back my project to write a guidebook to Lille. On reflection, it made sense. Bradt has a global reputation for revealing the charms of places often overlooked, and when I first began...
At Bradt Guides we’re aware that guidebooks start to go out of date on the day they’re published – and that you, our readers, are out there in the field doing research of your own. You’ll find out before us when a fine new family-run hotel opens or...
Special thanks to my dining partners in Lille for letting me reveal their secret tourist-free tables; to those generous readers who emailed me with their own stories of this special city; to Vera Dupuis, her heirs and successors, especially...
To Stéphane Fichet who has had to endure my lyrical appreciation of so many fine meals, without the joy of actually passing a fork from plate to palate!
Suggested itineraries 12, Tourist information 13, Red tape 13, Time 16, Getting there and away 16, Travelling with pets 26, Health 27, What to take 28, Money and budgeting 30 SUGGESTED ITINERARIES Also check out the city overview on page...