Safely Home in High Wycombe

26th Friday July

After a late night the only thing to do was to sleep in as check out was 12.00 which was great. Mary had had plans to go walking locally but her feet are shot, so she stayed in and tied up her blog ready to publish when we got back to England.

The park we were overlooking from our hotel was called  Place Louis Armstrong.

 This is the view from our bedroom on the fourth floor. it was immaculate and there was someone picking up the overnight rubbish in it early each morning.

 

Safe drinking water flows in fountains in the streets at many of the parks.

We set out on foot at around 12.15 to give ourselves plenty of time to get to Gard Du Nord. We did not want a repeat of Monday. Hamish and Lou had not got upi n time for Breakfast at the hotel aso we stopped locally and had a snack and coffee. The Metro took us all the way to Garde d'East and it was a small walk to Gard Du Nord. We actually needed all the time as there seemed to be a lot more to checking in in Paris than in Ashford. We certainly could not have cut it fine this side.

Alan and Mary had to fill in arrival cards as they were foreigners. Hamish and Louise are on British passports so they are free to travcl within the European union.

Louise and Mary wandered off to spend the surplus euros in the perfume store and missed hearing the boarding call. Alan and Hamsih were thinking they would have to go and find them. However all was well and everyone was sitting in the train by 3pm. Eurostar waits for no one pulled out of the station right on 3.13pm. We gained an hour by going back to England so we were be back in Ashford by 4.07.  The trip back was a lot more relaxed than the trip there.

So it was back to Heidi's for dinner and to pick up Bella who was overjoyed to see Hamish and Louise again.

Where have you all been?