London Wednesday

We were up and ready with time to pack and clean the apartment a little. It was warm and very humid when we left and the metro was quite oppressive. Fortunately the 2^nd train, that got us to Gare du Nord, was airconditioned which helped a bit. We wound our way around the passages and got to the Eurostar check in and border control (for both France and UK) an hour early. We had to be out of the apartment by 11am and there was nowhere else to go with the time we had and our luggage. On to the train for a fast and uneventful trip to London.

The weather deteriorated more and more and we went from a humid 23 degrees in Paris to a wet 14 degrees in London. We had a 15 min walk from St Pancras station to our serviced apartment, where we will be for the next 4 nights. The whole studio apartment is smaller than most of the hotel rooms we have been in, one of the problems of booking without seeing what you are getting, but it will do. Interesting  kitchen cupboard, that is the “kitchen” in a cupboard, or 2 in our case.

We’ve bought our Oyster card for public transport, been to Sainsbury’s for some wine and basic provisions (wine is not basic) and sussed out which Indian restaurant we intend eating at tonight.

Looking forward to seeing Debbie tomorrow night.