Our Room at the Old Bank

Day Four - Eurostar from Paris to London, Then Onto Oxford

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January 1st 2012
We had a final breakfast at Le Buci the next morning before catching a taxi to Gare du Nord for the Eurostar. We allowed an hour for checking in but it really wasn’t enough time. We hoped to have time to shop for food before getting on the train, but the queues were massive and we basically queued for the whole hour and then got straight on the train. When I caught it last year it was a lot q ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more