opinionated

I live tucked away on a quiet little street that’s ridiculously close to the dead centre of Lille, but minus any street noise. The name of my street translates to – Green Woods Road. Nice huh? Though a little tame in the overall offerings of Lille street names – compared with say ‘Street of the Hunchbacked Cats (I’m serious), Blue Sheep Street (I’m still serious).

And that’s my opinion. And if you have an opinion, Lille is the place to give it. Lille, otherwise known as ‘Rijsel’ in Hollandish gets its not-quite-sure-how-to-pronounce-it name from a little provincial dialect meaning ‘so, tell us what you think about it’. Which is of course my way of saying – there are a lot of surveys here. Really a lot. Drop a bomb in the middle of the town and you’re going to destroy more than lives and property. You’re going to destroy wads of valuable information on opinions of somewhat similar yet mildly different forms of bland cheese, and essential remarks on laundry liquid smell. So just put away the TNT you crazy anarchist.