Leaving Paris

This morning was a slow start as we had packed most of our bags last night, but it is getting that little bit harder to fit everything in our bags and suitcases.

We opted for catching a taxi to Gare De Nord, the station where the EuroStar to London would depart. Carol arranged for a taxi to be waiting down on the street for us, the driver was helpful

and loaded our bags into the boot of the car. When we got into the taxi we noticed the meter was already at 10 euro. It appeared as Carol had made a phone booking the driver had taken the order a little early and chose to sit in the street with the meter ticking.

On arrival at the station we noticed there was a lot of Police to the point the road in front of the station was blocked, there were many police sitting in vans and also a police tow truck. The taxi driver mentioned something bout the police but I have no idea what he said, it was in French.

We were dropped off pretty close to the station, as close as the driver could get and then it was just a matter of going through all the border crossing details and security scans. 

As we had a few Euros left Katie purchased herself some perfume and I purchased some Paris souvenirs. 

Now travelling on the EuroStar I opened up the GPS application on my phone which shows the speed we are doing, and I would call it pretty fast at 291Km/h