Went to Lille on Sunday to see the train station by Santiago Calatrava Valls a Spanish neofuturistic architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter. 
At the same time as meeting key railway requirements to position Liege at the heart of the North European high speed network, Euro Liege TGV SA wished to make the station’s aesthetics a central concern. Monumental and expressive, airy and transparent
An added bonus was that there was a fantastic Dali exhibition on in the station. It was the most extensive exhibition I have been to with a number of works that I had not seen before and rare footage of the man and Gala on video.
After spending 3 hours walking around the Dali exhibits - there was so much to see...I went to the Opera House to see Daniel-François-Esprit Auber version of Manon Lescaut.
Unfortunately, this was not as good as the Puccini version I seen a couple of weeks ago. However, the second half was better so we ended on an up note (excuse the pun).
It was a beautiful day so I went in the Lotus Elan with the top down - fabulous drive and the car surprised a couple of Audi's an RS5 and an ABT RS3 :-)
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