European holiday..goodbye Frinton, hello Paris

Another exciting adventure today, made all the more "exciting" by the fact that I left my backpack containing our travel documents in Mama's car. Of course, I only discovered this once our train had pulled out from the station on its one and half hour journey to London !

Looking down the barrel of missing our Paris connection, happily we were able to phone her. She raced to Witham so we could get off the train there, collect the backpack, and catch the next train to London.

A taxi took us from Liverpool St. Station to the international Station, St. Pancras, and after a croissant for lunch, and one last meander around London shops, we checked in and boarded the Eurostar train for Paris. This journey was very uneventful, the train was full though. The tunnel under the English Channel takes twenty minutes to cross.

On arrival at Gare du Nord, we found our way to our hotel, dragging our suitcases behind us!

This is the view from our window, with double window glazing there is no traffic noise though.



We went exploring, and managed to buy some strepsils for my still sore throat with no problems, and then found a restaurant for dinner. Back for a night of snoring and coughing according to Aysha, who is sharing a room with us at this hotel.