Goggle Maps it was 26 minutes to Lille Zoo de Lille off we popped…
BUT…
Less than 10 minutes later we were on a MOTORWAY 🛣️ !!!
Anyone who knows me knows that – since COVID and 🎵”Living On An Island 🏝️”🎵 – I am a complete MELT with most a lot of driving-oriented operations these days…
It was warm (sweaty-warm 🥵) and really motorway-windy but there was nothing I could do – I just held on to the hand-grips (on the back of the scooter) for dear life and went quiet 🤐
We have helmet intercoms so normally there’s a running commentary from yours truly…
All I could think was “If I make it to Lille, I’m getting an Uber back…” 🚕
Anyway we DID get there safely (clearly !!!) and in the middle of Lille was Citadelle Park complete with a young children’s funfair and a small zoo.
Although I had been informed (wrongly) online that it was free, it was actually €6 but O M G the guy in ticket booth was so SLOW 🥱 !!!
We eventually got in & saw lots of exotic birdies, a red panda 🐼 (which I didn’t even know existed !!!), a meerkat & a couple of massive hippopotamuses having a nap 😴