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| Our last day in London and today we have special guests, no Charles and Camilla don’t join us.. the bastards but Gary’s Brother John and wife Kath turn up in London for the start of their “Sound of Music” tour of Europe…what a hoot! if only we had have done that…high on a hill with a mountain goat |
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| It was a pretty sunny day with a little haze so we thought it would be a good chance to try out the London Eye Ferris wheel. It is an amazing engineering feat, you don’t realise how huge the thing is until you are actually 3/4 the way up the thing. The capsules hold about 25 people and give great views across London. Leaving it to early Monday morning we avoided the huge que, it only took about 20 minutes to get on the ride. The one revolution took about 30 minutes and cost 13 pounds. A few capsules over from us there was a wedding taking place. talk about tacky extravagance- might be London’s answer to Vegas? |
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| We met John and Kath about 12:30 at Trafalgar Square and went and got some lunch and a few pints at the Bat and Racket which was just around the corner followed by another 1 or two at another pub in the theatre district. We headed back towards the hotel (via the pub) and then had to rush a bit to meet our Eurostar train back to Paris. The fast walk burnt of a few counteries and pints. |
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| The Eurostar service was so easy, flash your passport at the security desk, they didn’t even look at Rocky’s but Gary got a stamp. Put your boarding pass into the ticket machine, then put your case on the xray then jump on the train and find your seat. At the Paris end it was just walk off the train and into the street. No customs no security just so easy. The train takes about 2 and a half hours and is as smooth as, the Channel Tunnel bit takes about 20 minutes the system is just so easy, much better than Airports and you leave and arrive right in the heart of the city. |
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| Our hotel in Paris was the same one we stayed in last week and was about 200 metres from the Station. We got to our room, fortunately it had a window to open, it was about 50 degrees and someone had smoked 6000 smokes in there that day. It was a shocker, but a bit of spray deodorant and the window open for a while it improved a bit. Went for a walk around the neigbourhood and got a kebab before calling it a day. |
