… if all goes according to plan, I’ll be in a hotel at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. <\/p>\n
Browsing around this evening on the web and looking for some kind of accommodation, I noticed that the airport has a hotel booking service. So on a whim I typed in a request for the cheapest hotel possible within the airport limits. <\/p>\n
And the price that came up was \u20ac106. So forget that!<\/p>\n
But there was one of these Google advert things on the side of the page for some kind of wholesale hotel booking agency. And they offered me a price in the same hotel for … errrr ….\u20ac66. So with shuttle to and from the flight terminal included in the price I’m not going to mess around wandering around the city at weird hours of the night – I’ll get a good night’s sleep instead.<\/p>\n
But the main reason for not wanting to hang around in Paris is the weather. Winter has come with a vengeance and it fell to 2.9\u00b0C last night. And it’s been grey and miserable all day too. I shan’t be sorry to see the back of this weather. Canada won’t be any warmer but at least the cold is different over there.<\/p>\n
I was going to spend the day packing and tidying up but I’ve run aground again. It’s a tip up here at the moment with papers and all kinds of things lying around here. But that’s how it’s going to stay until I come back. I’ll just be glad when I’m on the train. <\/p>\n
I’ve a lot to organise tomorrow morning, then I need to give Rob and Nicolette the instructions about checking up on the place, and then going round to Liz and Terry’s to park up Caliburn, and then recording 2 months’ worth of radio programmes. I’ll need a rest after all that.<\/p>\n
But it’s been 5 years since I last went on a major adventure<\/a>, and it’s 7 years since I went to Canada<\/a> last. It’s about time I had a holiday!<\/p>\n
