...I got up at 5 this morning to get to Victoria in time for my coach at 7.30. I neednt have bothered- we only got as far as Ewell West and the train was held up for an hour because there was a broken-down train at Stoneleigh! (By the way, sorry if I make any mistakes, I cant get used to this French keyboard, all the letters are in different places!) So to cut a long story short, I actually ended up at Waterloo at 8, got the underground to Victoria and managed to get on the next coach to Paris, at 9.30! When we arrived in Paris, I somehow managed to get myself to my hotel on the Metro, which was rather an achievement, as I had to buy a ticket from a French machine
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