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Dec9
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Had a nice weekend in Lille, marred on the way home by a Eurotunnel delay. We were meant to be on the 10pm train home last night, and there was a two
hour delay for some reason. No explanation, just an automated message when you are queued up in your car saying "sorry for any inconvenience caused"... oh no, no inconvenience caused at all, I always build a spare couple of hours into my Sunday night plans. We were at the terminal quite a long time in the end, as we'd got there a bit early in the hope we could duck onto an earlier service, and we couldn't. Bah. It should be my dream mode of travel, it runs direct from Folkestone, no flying involved, fast, a lot cheaper than Eurostar (Eurotunnel is the one you drive your car onto, Eurostar is the passenger train), so you can take masses of duty frees, but it has gone wrong at least 50% of the times I've used it.
Lille was nice, lots of designer babywear and home stores. No pubs, or really many vegan friendly places to eat. Our hotel was great, we had a suite with free movies and things, good choice Clare, it is the number one rated hotel in Lille.
We did eat a few places, more of a struggle than I'd thought though even with a French speaker in tow. Pain Quotidien was not as good as it is over here, nice when we got the componenents, but they did not really want to adapt a dish to remove the meat / fish / cheese. Aux Indes was good after we got over the initial confusion, they did do a vegetarian set / tasting menu, but they did their best to hide this fact.
Had a big old shop up on the way back, bought much wine and paid too much for it because of the bad exchange rate at the moment, but at least we're stocked up for a few weeks, let's call that a little christmas present for myself.
Was knackered all day yesterday, went to bed early but still don't think I'll be fully rested until the weekend...
2008 :: Comment / reply
Sep4
Another strike, and a record breaking Eurostar trip
Hey London tube travellers, Here's a song for you. Only listen to it if you like lots and lots of swearing, and weak b3ta style graphics over a tune you've heard before mind. I'm not really that arsed about the tube strike today as, HEY, I'm well out of London, but a good friend pointed out that striking over things including pensions these days only draws attention to the fact that you HAVE a pension, not so many people do these days. I just started a contributary one six months ago, far too late for it to be paying me out any significant amount of money ever. I'm going to have to rely on keeping my livers in good condition and selling one of them when the time comes.
In other transport news, COOL, Eurostar smashes a speed record, yes on the English side of the tracks. We will not actually ever be travelling by Eurostar from Folkestone to London, and in face things could start to get a bit less convenient down this way if they're really going to scrap services from Ashford to Paris, but faster tracks between here and London are part of the plan to reduce our commuting time. One BR employee told the wife this week it would be thirty something minutes from Folkestone to London. A mistake on his part, almost certainly, but if it goes down to an hour, that's nice.
I say "our" commuting times, I don't actually mean mine, obviously.
Hey I still haven't written up our trip to York yet.
2007 :: Comment / reply
May2
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Eurostar Departure Lounge
He was not solving crimes in a Belgian fashion, but merely going to Brussels. He was on the 06.53 train yesterday (Tuesday 1st). Fascinating.
akp :: 2001 :: Comment / reply
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