I booked train ticket to Dunkirk this weekend. I have played WW2 games and this location is one of a historic place which was in my list.
This will be my second trip to France, unfortunately there was rain last to last weekend (1st June ) at Paris. Good thing was there was less crowd due to rain. I will however plan a trip there with my wife on tourist visa (vacation) once I save some money in maybe 2 years. I am assuming God cursed me bad weather as I didn’t accompany my wife
Back to Dunkirk, I booked the tickets but I am confused on “Lille-Europe” station and “Lille-Flanders” train station. Can anyone help me - is it the same station, could get much on internet?
@zubin47, as someone who lived in Lille, I can tell you: they are two different stations. If very close to each other. Like 500 meters. Or a metro station. You can literally see one from the other.
Basically Lille Flandres is the historical railway station, is quite generalist, lots of local/regional fares. Lille Europe is the modern one that serves the high speed rails to Paris, London, and Bruxelles, and them alone.
(fun fact: if you go by foot, you will pass by a place I once worked at, on the very same single road to take! )
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At the dermatologist’s office for the first time to get checked over. Working in the sun makes that a concern and there’s been a few unusual growths over the past two years or so. So far, looks good, everything that’s popped up is either benign or naturally occurring around my age, and nothing that indicates skin cancer is forming, so that’s a plus. Had a great-uncle die from that due to being a roofer, so definitely want to avoid that.
I’ve been feeling insecure about all the photos I shared in the forum gallery, and I’ve deleted them. That’s the reason some messages seem random there in case you were lurking.
Today was a good day at Dunkirk. Thankfully the weather was good (it was raining today early morning at Brussels when I was leaving).
At Dunkirk, reached at 11 am, I visited the beach, the 1940 war museum, a peaceful spot (known as Bastion 32 in Google map, it is just the back of Frac Laac bus station), had lunch at the Domino’s Pizza and then back to train station at 4 pm, but then I realised I have more time to explore the town as my return train was at 7 pm). Then I discovered the best place which I was not aware - it was the bell tower from where all around Dunkirk can be seen (took the elevator and tightly narrow staircase to the top). And then back to train station to catch the train to Lille.
And yes, the yatch, ships, docks and seagull were amazing. Took a lot of pictures and videos. And my first bullet train experience today. And I walked all the above venues (sharing my walk map).
I would recommend this beautiful town to visit.
A little positive thing I guess after the turmoil from yesterday.
At my one job a Starbucks barista who either A. Wants to harvest my organs for the black market, B. Might be into me, or C. Looking to sacrifice me to some Erdrich god. Has started coming into my job when I’m working to see me and it makes me feel special because she brings me a free coffee cake and she just brightens my day.
I mean I say you should take a chance at some point. I would say “What is the worst that could happen?” but I see you have accounted for those scenarios already.
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