The excitement mounts.... 10 days to flight day...we tried the the tent out, its easy to put up and take down even in a force 7 gale, it felt quite roomy and hopefully will be watertight. Its at least twice as big as the one we used on the last USA road trip! Dr Fred was gladdened when he went to buy it and went to the outside display bit to check it out fully set up and discovered that it was one of the few left standing after some pretty dire prolonged wind and rain - and believe me if it gets that dire we will be in a hotel type establishment!!
Finally we have made it to Paris. It was a bit of a long travel day - we decided to come by train so we could experience the full glory of British Rail or whatever it's called now which actually delivered perfectly on time... and then the Eurostar which was incredibly disappointing! All that beautiful St. Pancreas Station and the Eurostar is sited in the dungeon... overcrowded, dark, lousy facilitated space... and then the train was an hour late it felt like a long time before we got any fresh air - but eventually we wound up in gay Paree... We navigated the metro and found our airbnb gaff. A mere 70 steps to the fourth floor on a rather lovely winding wooden staircase to a very nice roof top flat which is comfortable and gives a view across a lovely Courtyard with some obviously much posher flats. It's located really centrally about two minutes away from the Opera Garnier so a very good location for getting everywhere...
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