I was planning on heading for Italy, but the next train along the southern coast was not leaving for another seven hours. It was quicker for me to travel overnight back up to Paris and then down to Italy from there; so back to Paris it was, with no supplements, no reservations and no Nazi security guards to worry about. Bliss. Those evils of seat reservations and supplements reared their ugly heads again at the Gar de Lyon as most of the trains heading south were of the high-speed TGV variety. Fair do's to the French however, as I think that it is quite reasonable to expect to pay a supplement to travel on the fastest train service in the world, and the requirement was very well advertised on the departures board. It wasn't long before
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