Category Archives: Lille and the north of France

One Sunday in October 2007 we left our apartment in Lille to ride north to Belgium.     A windmill on the main highway. Across the border at Menen, I detached the trailgator once we got on the bike path … Continue reading →

  On a cold April 13, 2008, when we lived in Lille, I rode out past the town of Hem to see the Paris-Roubaix come by on the 260km race’s penultimate section of pavés. Those are the brutal cobblestones that the Hell … Continue reading →