French Wine, New York Crowds and Minnesota Weather The steel wheels are screaming against the cold rails propelling the Eurostar at over 100mph as it streaks across northern France on its 2.5 hour journey to London. Inside the train we hear very little of the noise. The ride is smooth. The scenery is much like that of our Midwest. Soon, we’ll be slipping under the Atlantic in the tunnel that takes us to the United Kingdom. We are not overly sad to be leaving Paris. It’s a beautiful city but very similar to New York. It’s crowded and the people, like in any large, crowded city, can be brusque. In short, it lacked the warmth and romance of Italy. We only had 1.5 days in Paris and most of our time was spent along the Champs-Elysees,
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