Sunday 17th getting off
in Kiel – train to Paris
The Greeks go to the polls today –
what will they do? I suspect it will just drag on while they go through all the
motions again. We had signed up to remove our own luggage, which got us pole
position on the starting grid and we had walked to the station by 9am. The
internet shops both failed to open but we caught the train and whizzed along
comfortably at 200 km/hr. We had hoped to follow part of the Rhine but we
mostly ran through tunnels. The countryside that we saw was very lush and
pretty. We changed at Karlsruhe at 5pm and set course for Gay Paris.
We were last here in October, very
early in our holiday. We are not at all sad to be going home because we did
everything we wanted to (except Everest) and it all turned out better than we
had envisaged. Nothing went wrong, we didn’t get seriously ill, nothing got
stolen, we saw some amazing sights and sites, did some exhilarating things, did
it rough and took it easy, didn’t spend more than we expected, and we are on
the way home to the family. And we still have 3 months left to play!
Our hotel is very nice and very
well situated being a short walk from both the Gare de l’est which is where we
came in and the Gare du Nord, which is where we need to catch the train for
Charles de Gaulle on the last morning. As you would expect so close to major
stations, there is a full palette of marginalised people, but they keep to
themselves and we feel quite safe. There are also a couple of supermarkets so
we are keeping up our intake of baguettes and smoked salmon.
Most people would have a bird on their shoulder... not a dog. It seemed comfortable even when they went fast on the scooter
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