Back to Paris!

With all our tours now finished we headed back to Paris for a couple of days rest and recovery. It was drizzling off and on in Lille so after breakfast we walked up to the Lille de Flandres train station to catch our bullet train back to Paris.

I really do like these trains, very smooth and very fast. In just over an hour we were arriving at Paris’ Gare du Nord train station. We are staying at a different hotel on the other side of the river. We made our way over to the metro station, sorted out the tickets, and found the platform. In no time we were at the Odeon Station and our hotel was about a block away - all very easy.

The room wasn’t ready so we did what Parisians do - went to the cafe for frites maison and a beer to watch people walk past.

We are in the St Germaine area of Paris which is closer to the river and very trendy, lots of cafes and restaurants.

We booked in at a fancy restaurant tonight for a celebratory dinner and it was one of the culinary highlights of the holiday - seriously good food washed down with French champagne.

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