Today, was a day for traveling, and to just take it easy and try to get over our jet lag. But perhaps the extreme fatigue is just from traveling so much and being so busy. Today we were woken at 5:30am to go hop on a train in the St. Pancras station, which was to take us from London to Paris. It would be our first experience with running to try to catch the train and being of the last people on, because apparently Eurail has the security of an airport, whilst all the tube (subway) in London did not. Sooo, this wasn't expected, and we we cut it very close.
So we went through the Chunnel and ended up in Caile, France, or however you spell it, where we then activated our eurail passes which will hopefully last us the rest of the trip. England wasn't covered on the passes, so we just took the first stop and then switched over, to save money for our passes. So from there, we arrived in Paris at about 11am, local time, which really was 10 am london time, so 3 and a half hours, given the layover between trains.
We have had our first true experiences with the language barrier. Our hotel is located in Malakoff, which is on the outside of Paris, and therefore, only locals are around i.e. not very many people speak english. Yet a couple saw us looking confused trying to find out hotel, and while they knew no english, and we knew no french, to helped us find it, and even took us halfway. The same occurred when we went for pizza, which was amazing by the way. The people are so friendly and helpful and still try their best to try and communicate with us.
We had to blow a few hours before checking into our hotel, so we had gone for pizza, and lied in the park just a few blocks down from our hotel. Nice and relaxing, and took a nap.
We went a local bakery to buy a baguette, which happened to be amazing by the way, with the brie, that is much cheaper here, and the guy even gave us a free pastry. And then again, I took another nap. While I have been up since 5:30, I have probably had about 6 hours in napping today already. hahaha...and it is, midnight nearly I guess.
The photos from today are nothing too special, just the beautiful architecture of the houses here, and will be posted tomorrow, after we do our walking tour, and possibly a pub crawl. Au Revoir!
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