Dodging the French strikes via Perpignan

After the Taxi of Pete got us to Leicester station nice and early, our luxury First Class tickets got us a light breakfast on board, before easily getting our Eurostar to Paris with no trouble.
St Pancras was pretty busy, but the queue moved fast, & we got aboard for our comfortable seats and light lunch 👍

At Gare du Nord we took the metro across to Austerlitz to complete the next piece of our Day 1 puzzle 💪

Our original plan had us on an overnight train to Toulouse, but the impending French strike made us change tack just a couple of days before leaving. We were able to get a refund on that train, and we headed directly south to avoid trouble and get as close to Spain as we could 👍
Hence we changed to go from Paris to Perpignan on a fast TGV: very comfortable.

Once there, we had chosen the Hotel Kyriad inside the station.

We made a decision early on to always try to find accommodation close to the stations, to minimise lugging our bags about. Might not be the most salubrious area, of course, but certainly on this occasion it turned out to be a good decision: Kyriad was easy to find and very pleasantly decorated with Space wall art, funky carpet and flooring ….very cool!もっと詳しく