PARIS DAY 1 - Damn Eurostar!
Helena and I left the office at 16h00, expecting to arrive at Waterloo and easily board our train to Paris. We arrived at the station only to find absolute chaos.
Earlier on in the day there had been a fire alert on board a Eurostar train which shut down the tunnel in both directions for several hours. We ended up boarding the train at 20h15 that evening, the train which was meant to be departing at 17h45.
Eventually after hours waiting we were on the train ready to go only to find we had been situated in the worst possible carriage with a demon child who decided to scream from the start of the journey to the very end. Needless to say this was the final insult for what seemed would be a nightmare trip to Paris.
We arrived in Paris just after 01h00, now we were faced with figuring out how we would get to our hotel as the metro was now closed. Luckily because we were delayed for reasons out of our control Euro star agreed to refund us for the taxi which we had to take to our hotel. Eventually we arrived at the Garden Hotel at about 02h00 and we went right to bed, totally exhausted!
