Why Lille is my kids' new favourite destination
After an extraordinarily exhausting week, last weekend we decided to do a weekend outside Brussels. I booked a hotel last minute -literally on Friday, after we decided that Lille would be our next destination. We wanted to go somewhere not too far, but we wanted to go some place we've never been before. Since we recently took the kids to Rotterdam's Oceanium and Amsterdam's zoo, we decided to drive the opposite side this time: France. Lille is only 130 km away from Brussels, and we needed exactly an hour and a half. We got there around 11 o'clock on Saturday, and guess what our first destination was! Surprise, surprise: the Lille zoo. Yes, we take the kids to the zoo every time we visit a new place, because it's their ultimate favorite place to visit, albeit my husband's reluctance of the idea of zoos for ethical reasons. Lille zoo though, unlike many European zoos, is very small and cute. The entrance is very cheap, the parking is convenient and the size...