Yet another exciting weekend!

I'd been looking forward to this weekend for ages! Zoe, a friend from University, was coming to visit Lille! Luckily Caroline had to leave early Friday which meant leaving work at 4pm and not 5pm (THANK YOU!), allowing me to get to Lille to meet Zoe and have a quick stroll around the Grand Place!

We then met up with all my other assistant friends (shout outs to Nia, Jess, Becca, Luke Julia and her boyfriend Khal, Vanessa and Adam!) and decided to go to the famous Spoons: Les 3 Brasseurs - OF COURSE! After a lot of food and maybe too much booze, we headed toward the little Christmas Markets! When you come from Birmingham, these would seem less impressive....yet still lovely to walk round even if there wasn't too many stalls! After more to eat we then decided to go for more drinks - where Lauren and her boyfriend Ross joined us! Except half of us didn't go for drinks....

Jess showing so much sass infront of the wheel

"mes filles"

WE WENT ON THE BIG WHEEL!

I was quite nervous - the seats were swinging in the air! But when we got on the wheel my whole mood changed! I really enjoyed it - much to Zoe and Vanessa's scared looks and clinging on a bit tighter than normal!!

Don't look down.....

                                                                          

The night ended with more drinks and chats before getting the last train back to Douai! Having Zoe was lush, we ended up staying up till 1ish chatting and gossiping - a real girly sleepover! Of course with New Girl involved!

The next day was very cultural and exciting! We went to the Palais de Beaux Arts, a beautiful art museum in Lille for only 4 euros for students! We explored so many different rooms we even got lost at one stage! It's a really good experience for anyone who loves art! 

                                                                               

We then carried on to Nottinghill cafe to have hot sandwiches and cakes! The rest of the day involved wondering around Lille and old Lille showing Zoe some of my favourite spots! We then went to a little creperie for tea, which involved a tartine maroilles - bread, lots of cheese, ham and then a huge jacket potato...so after thinking we we're going to die after this huge meal, they then brought us 7/8 scoops of icecream each!?!?! It's now become my favourite restaurant...but also has given me a food baby I think!

 Sunday involved watching the latest Harry Potter/JK Rowling Film: Les Animaux Fantastique. OK so it isn't Harry Potter, but it was amazing, especially for 6 euros! We did a whooooole lot of walking after more and more French food that Isabelle had kindly left us! We went around the whole of Douai, and if I do say so myself I was pretty proud of my town that day shining its autumn colours!

With watching New Girl, crying together at how funny it was, as well as all our French culture, 89 Malbz did well on tour of Lille!!

A huge thank you to all the assistants and Zoe of course, for a fantastic weekend! I'm extremely lucky to have you all in my life and it's making the year abroad even better!!!! Roll on next week together in Arras and Bruges!