Traveling to Paris (the Prof)

Waiting at St Pancras

Not sure how we can really describe our trip to Paris.  Two very special days and it's a bit difficult to pick pictures out of the 500 or so we took.  For this, I just want to talk about the trip itself.

We traveled on the Eurostar--the train that connects London to Paris through the Chunnel (the Channel tunnel, if you're not familiar).  It's a great way to travel--much more freedom than on an airplane, less time wading through security checks, better food, and far more comfortable seats.  And it moves pretty fast, too. I'll probably post a video that I took out the window on Facebook at some point (the blog just doesn't like my videos).

We left London early Thursday morning from St. Pancras Station.  St. Pancras is a huge station connected to the King's Cross Station (think platform 9 3/4), but our bus dropped us right by the right door to get into the international terminal.  We ate breakfast and rode up to the train platform.  The station was quite pretty in itself.

Comfortable seating helps a lot

This was Tink's first train ride, and my first since I was younger than her.  We made one stop to pick up a few extra passengers outside London.  The Chunnel isn't really a big deal--it's just dark for about 20 minutes.  We arrived at Gare du Nord station in Paris about 2 1/2 hours later.  The countryside goes by very quickly, but it was a nice view of both England and France.  It's just hard to watch it for very long at a time.

Looking down the street to Gare du Nord

We figured out at the end of Thursday that we had taken a bus, a train, a subway, and a boat all in the same day--and still managed to walk about 3-4 miles.  Sleep wasn't hard to find in Paris.

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