{"id":4688,"date":"2010-09-28T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T23:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2017-06-30T12:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:19:40","slug":"tuesday-28th-september-2010-would-you-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 28th September 2010 – WOULD YOU BELIEVE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sncf<\/a>… that this is the first time that I’ve been on a French train since all of 1978? That was when I had a brief excursion from Rouen to Paris to escape from a party of schoolkids that I was accompanying.<\/p>\n

The trip itself was quite uneventful except that I had to share a table with three other people and a large black dog. Everywhere you put your feet it seemed to be on top of the dog. Probably something to do with me going to Labrador, I reckon.<\/p>\n

everything went according to plan at Gerzat and Liz dropped me off at the railway station in really good time for my train. I even managed to have time for a coffee and was on the platform in good time for my train.<\/p>\n

The British King Richard I was, as every schoolboy will tell you, nicknamed Richard Gare de Lyon because he was always travelling south with his pal Philip of France. I was here in the Gare de Lyon and I was going west. I didn’t like the analogy.<\/p>\n

To seek directions to the RER I enquired of a member of the station security staff. He replied in an English which was absolutely impeccable. When I congratulated him on it he replied
\n"and so it ought to be. I was born in Atlanta, Georgia"<\/span>.
\nAhh well.<\/p>\n

So down into the basement, off to Something Halles du Something Else on the RER line A, and then change onto the RER line B for Charles de Gaulle airport Terminal 1. And it wasn’t half a struggle fighting through tides of people with a big heavy suitcase. This was the worst part of the journey without a doubt.<\/p>\n

When I finally arrived at the airport I waited outside in the wind and rain in the company of a hundred other people for the Hotel navettes. My hotel was the Comfort Inn and I have no idea why they call it Comfort because the light in my room doesn’t work, the shower is only lukewarm and leaks all over the bathroom floor, the meals and drinks are like the internet service – flaming expensive!<\/p>\n

But then it’s the cheapest hotel I could find that had a direct connection to the airport and still had a room vacant. I could have paid a lot more for my room elsewhere. And I’m only going to be sleeping in it anyway. It’s better than a draughty railway station concourse.<\/p>\n

And I have my humus butties and a packet of biscuits – what more could any man desire?<\/p>\n

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