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Published: April 11th 2012
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It's 1am and I'm eating a midnight snack courtesy of Paul's (a yummy sandwich), Walker's Thai Sweet Chilli Potato Chips (my absolute fav flavor) and decaf coffee on my nice double bed in my nice hotel in the nice area of south kensington in central london. Its been a long day of traveling and I couldn't believe I made it to London! Why? So here goes the story...
This morning, I took the train from Paris to London via Eurostar. I had booked this ticket a month prior for a really good price of $133, but the only catch was that it was non-refundable/transferable. So what? It's not like I would miss another train from Paris to London like I did previously. Little did I know....it would happen again! I told Aure that my train was at 11:15am. So she told Richard and he said if we leave at 10:30am, it should be fine as it would only take 30 minutes to get to the station. Ok. Cool. I was stoked! Then....we leave and he asked again which train station we were heading to. I guess he got confused between two of the train stations in Paris, and it so
happens that Gare du Nord is deeper in the city of Paris than the one he thought of...so we hit traffic. It's 10:55am and there was no way I was gonna make it. No big deal. I would take the next one as that's what happened last time. The next one would leave at 12:15pm. Ok. Cool. I have time...but we get in deadlock traffic and we weren't moving. So 11:30am hit and Aure and I jump out of the car and hit the metro to get to the station. We finally get there at 1145am and showed the guy our ticket. He states, "Your ticket is a loss. You need a new one. You cannot get on the next train." What? Really? You're kidding me. I've done this before and missed my train, and was able to get on the next one no problem. Well...I guess if you're late 10minutes late, they'll do an exception, but if you're an hour late...forget about it 😞 So, I was out of luck and needed to buy a new ticket. €245 = no bueno! 😞 Oh well...on the bright side of things: at least I got to spend more time with Aurelie...and
I was able to go to her wedding....and I was still able to get to London at a decent time 😊 Aurelie...I love you and its always an adventure when I take the Eurostar with you! 😊 It's our thing! hehe. I know you did it on purpose so you can spend more time with me 😉 Sorry about the crying when we said good-bye! I missed you 😞
So anyway, now that Im safely back in London in my nice hotel, I can relax, eat, spend time with my friends tomorrow and do a bit of shopping at my favorite place: Topshop! 😊 Oh....afternoon tea here I come!
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