Pardon, Parlez vous anglais?

We started the day by getting up nice and early, and with Sues assistance of dropping us at the station, made our way to London where we dropped our bags at a luggage desk before finding Regent Street, in order to find the Eurail Office and buy our Eurail pass for the next few weeks. I have to say that these passes are BLOODY expensive, but, are almost essential for Europe travel, it will in the long run, save us quite a bit of cash. We brought these passes in an hour or so and then had 5 hours to kill until our next train, so we walked back to St James Park where we had lunch, lay in the sun, tried to be squirrel whisperers again (weren’t so successful this time, it seems they don’t like bread) went onto Trafalgar square and then back to St Pancreas to pick up our luggage and catch the Eurostar to Paris.

The journey really didn’t take that long; I was prepared for a lot longer so I was rather chuffed when we hopped off after 2 hours or so.

The Paris Metro (train station) is quite easy to negotiate, even if your French is dismal. I actually find it 100 times easier than the London underground to be honest. We had a little trouble finding our hotel though, we followed the map down to the tea, but we couldn’t see it at all, we were on some sort of alley street, so with a lot of aimless wandering we eventually stumbled upon it, no where near the map directions. Our room is gorgeous. A large room by city hotel standards, nice ensuite bathroom with a spa (I was in heaven seeing this) and the most comfortable bed EVER. We dumped our stuff and went for a little wander about, discovered a market that was just closing up, a few restaurants and bits and bobs before making our way back to the hotel for some well deserved rest.

written by  Chris and Emily on June 12, 2009 from Paris, France
from the travel blog: Europe 2009
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