Day 16 - Paris, France

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Arrivederci Roma, Bonjour Paris

Activities

Train transfer Rome - Milan - Paris (13 hours)

Highlight(s)

• Getting off train
  
• 3 course lunch on train (Orient Express style) which killed an hour and provided some entertainment
  
• Excellent driver who collected us at train platform and deposited us at hotel with an impromptu night tour of Paris monuments along the way.
  
• Michel's Gelati count - 18
  
• Joceline's Italian Coffee count - 18
  

Odd Spot(s)

• Milan to Paris train - there was a train horn being blasted repeatedly. Passengers were looking out window to try and work out what all the fuss was about and then the horn sound suddenly stopped as the Conductor answered his mobile phone.
  
• About 20 passengers were kicked off train at Modane after French officials check passports and tickets at border crossing. The ejected passengers were filed past the train windows as they were rounded-up from one end of the platform to the other.
  

Weather

It looked sunny through the train windows. Milan was hot when we stopped there for 50 minutes awaiting our connection and Paris was a wet but balmy evening.

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Photos

Oulx
Ski-town between Turino, Italy and the French border