Getting our clogs on

Today it was up stumps from Lyon and France and off to Copenhagen. We were picked up by an Uber at 9.45 am and taken to Lyon Part Dieu train station for our journey to Paris CDG station. It was, of course, on time and it was a very smooth and fast trip. Before we knew it we were at Charles De Gaulle Airport. We headed out of the train station and into the airport, which is huge. On the way to our terminal we stopped at a Brasserie - which turned out to be part of the Sheraton Hotel - for lunch. We had a lovely relaxing meal. Once we were finished, we made our way to Terminal B to do bag drop off, which we did successfully without assistance.

We then headed through security and waited for our flight. The airport was overheated, l’m not sure why they have it so warm. Finally, we started to board our SAS flight. This all went very smoothly and we were ready for an on-time departure when the captain made an announcement. Some idiots had checked in bags and failed to board, so their luggage had to be located and off loaded. After about half an hour the captain provided an update, telling us three of the four bags had been found, but they still had to find the last one. Finally, after about an hour, we left. The captain made up a bit of time, so we landed at 7pm, 45 minutes late, which made it very tight for those having to make a connecting flight. With typical Scandi efficiency, they made an announcement before we landed telling all passengers with connections what they had to do and had rebooked flights for those who had missed a connecting flight. Take note Qantas!

On landing, I was experiencing problems with my phone, which are continuing. I switched it off several times to no avail, so will look at it again tomorrow. We grabbed a taxi and made it to the apartment complex where we met our lovely host Lone and her very friendly dog. She took us through all the operations of the apartment and building and then bid us farewell.

The apartment was really lovely and comfortable and in a lively neighbourhood. After unpacking, we headed to the supermarket for some supplies. We had a lovely cold supper of pumpernickel bread with cold cuts, cheese, pate and apple juice.

An early night, as tomorrow we go exploring.Read more