Our original plan was to travel from home to our hotel for the night in Paris and I booked our Eurostar tickets with this in mind, later we had second thoughts as it would have meant leaving home at about 7-30 am and arriving at our hotel around 10pm. What we did was book the Wardonia Hotel in London and travel the day before, spreading the trip over two days.
We arrived in London around lunch time and stopped at the first pub for lunch before taking the tube across to St Pancras. Booked into our hotel and wandered off around the area booking a table at the local Italian Restaurant for dinner.
The next day was spent wandering along the canal, around the park, stopping for drinks and lunch.
We returned to the hotel at about 3 pm and made our way to the Eurostar terminal and went straight to departures. Yet again our train was late boarding, but somehow the staff got us away on time.
After all the hot sunny weather we arrived in Paris in the rain, however we were not going to get wet, as the next bit of out journey was something new for us, a trip on the Metro. This worked very well, I bought our tickets online, loaded to our phones, so just needed tapping in. We had one change and on to our final destination not far from the Eiffel Tower, by now the rain had stopped thankfully. It was only a short walk straight down the road to our hotel. When we arrived we found a pump out tanker parked outside and the suction hose running it through the open window. My boating friends will understand. Once booked in we headed to our room on the second floor, thankfully not the fifth, as the lift was broken.
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