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Find all you need at the vast Carrefour - then top up with bread and pastries at Paul, before nipping out of the side-exit from Eurolille for the short walk to Eurostar.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16140 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16129
It is held over the first weekend in September in the centre of Lille. From Antiques to Junk, from Books to Pictures it is all there. The walk from Lille Europe to the market is short, some 500 yards so access is easy.

I discovered it by accident. Leaving the old station (Lille Flandres), after an ovenight trip from Italy, I headed for a café and stumbled across a small part of the market. I was hooked!]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16129 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16124
The back of each car seemed so low I spent the entire time feeling like I was about to fall out!

Afterwards head for one of the cafes in the same square for a medicinal hot chocolate.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/16124 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/15386 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/15386 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/14965 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/14965