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Day 5: March 26, 2025
Well, a reasonably early start this morning with breakfast at 5.30 and on the coach at 6.00 to head off to St Pancras Station (yet another Harry Potter site) to get the Eurostar, our train under the English Channel to France and Paris.
We met our driver, Luis, at the Gare du Nord and had an...entertaining...drive through Paris to our hotel where we had time to grab a baguette street lunch - good choice Mr Hine - and we were actually able to check into our rooms before heading into the city proper on the Metro.
Place de la Concorde, where the guillotine did her merry task, The Tuilleries and the Louvre (outside only today), along the banks of the Seine and to Notre Dame before heading into the Latin Quarter for roast chicken with creamy mashed potato and chocolate mousse and where a couple of the girls entertained us beautifully on the piano! Fabulous.
But that was not enough!
Crepes were demanded! Great, street food crepes. Delicious dessert crepes. Big fat satisfying crepes.
Did I mention crepes?
And back to the hotel in the business district, La Defense, rather beautiful at night.