Tag: Paris
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A bit of a day.
An early get up for a TGV out of Gare de l’Est, so an early morning start with about 5 hours sleep after watching the fireworks. Lovely air conditioned roomy first class TGV to relax onto though; I think we all dozed! Everyone was doing really well… until we approached Strasbourg. Lots of tunnels which…
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A (national) day in Paris!
After our late night going to the Eiffel Tower, we chose to NOT set an alarm but obviously being Healds, we were still up and about and in the Jardin du Tuileries for 10.30am to see the military flyover for Bastille Day. I know it’s not usually our scene to partake in huge national celebrations…
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And We’re Off!
A 4am alarm isn’t particularly early for us. I’d be lying if I said we’d never found satisfaction in being the ones to wake the boys up, for a change, but they’re pretty used to it by now, and in the summer it’s full daylight anyway. Our unneccesarily-early taxi got us to Waverley with plenty…