Day 1

We left on the Saturday morning and headed up to St Pancras – all went very smoothly indeed.

There was a slight delay at the entrance to the tunnel, but we were soon blasting our way down to Paris to arrive there early afternoon.

With the booking I had also purchased some 2 day travel passes for the Metro and buses which we had to pick up on arrival. Unfortunately for some reason the place that issued the travel passes was in itself a fair distance away from the station!

So we Taxied to the all day travel passes and then went on to look around the Louvre and the Jardin de Tuileries – which was very impressive.

We then walked on to the Eiffel tower! After a debate we decided to walk up instead of take the lift, which proved to be damn hard work!! Windy too, but worth it for the views of Paris at the top.

Then we went to check-in to the hotel and have some dinner – which was ‘tres bon’.

Day 2

We had to fit the remainder of the sights into 4 hours today! The return train was at 6:15 – which meant a 5:30 check in.

We first went to see Notre-Dame which is an awesome building! Very impressive indeed. We then took a circular route around to the metro which would take us to ‘Arc de Triomphe’. This was so we could do a little shopping and get a coffee on route! Very nice indeed.

The ‘Arc de Triomphe’ was also an impressive building – however I preferred Notre-Dame!

We then headed down to the Louvre for some lunch and a bit more shopping.

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The Journey Home

Back on the UK side of the tunnel after a 40 minute delay only to find that there was a lot of snow about! Snow and the UK are never a good mix for travelling! Especially by train.

The direct tube line was shut and we had to make a detour only to find that the next train to Brighton was at 10:30 (bearing in mind we had left Paris at 6:15).

Once we were on that train it eventually stopped working at East Croydon after a few hours. There was some severe snow on the line!! So we changed to a train that got us as far as Haywards Heath by 1-ish where we were picked up by George.

The A23 on the way back was a skating rink, with many cars stuck at the side of the road with wheels spinning! We made it through though!! And arrived home at about 2am!

I was due to heading out to Sweden early the following morning! The snow didn’t look like it was going to let me!!!

All in all we had a very good trip – I would recommend Paris to anyone, just don’t go when there is a chance of snow!