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Congrats on getting the cruise bookings done! You never do know if the website will cooperate or not, so it's a good thing you hit it at a good moment. I hope you felt better the rest of the weekend.
Missed the start of this, so I'm already 6 pages behind! Signing on so I can catch up (hopefully) over the weekend. After I try catching back up on the end of the Hawaii trip!
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Missed the start of this, so I'm already 6 pages behind! Signing on so I can catch up (hopefully) over the weekend. After I try catching back up on the end of the Hawaii trip!
You all were up quite early, but that seems to have been profitable as you got the Palo ressies and your excursions. ;waytogo: I your seats on the Eurostar!
Seems like everything went well for the beginning of your trip on Eurostar. Some nice photos of the English countryside. Looking forward to more and trying to think what those smells of Paris may be... My guess being, baked bread or other great scents from a local patisserie!
Well, I'm about to fall way behind on this TR and your other as I'm off to the airport and Disney for the next week in just over 7 hours. I will be arriving at Orlando Int'l at about 14:15 GMT. Hope to try Beaches and Cream for lunch tomorrow( if time cooperates ), Studios, Epcot dinner at Monsieur Paul tomorrow night and Illuminations. Should be a great start to another fantastic WDW experience!
Talk to you soon!
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You all were up quite early, but that seems to have been profitable as you got the Palo ressies and your excursions. ;waytogo: I your seats on the Eurostar!
Getting up that early was a pain, but it was so worth it. We adore the Palo brunch and I can't imagine doing a Disney cruise and not being able to enjoy the brunch.
Seems like everything went well for the beginning of your trip on Eurostar. Some nice photos of the English countryside. Looking forward to more and trying to think what those smells of Paris may be... My guess being, baked bread or other great scents from a local patisserie!
You'll find out in a moment, but sadly neither of those.... we're talking the not-so-pleasant smell that Paris is sadly renowned for.
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Well, I'm about to fall way behind on this TR and your other as I'm off to the airport and Disney for the next week in just over 7 hours. I will be arriving at Orlando Int'l at about 14:15 GMT. Hope to try Beaches and Cream for lunch tomorrow( if time cooperates ), Studios, Epcot dinner at Monsieur Paul tomorrow night and Illuminations. Should be a great start to another fantastic WDW experience!
Have a magical time! If you make it to Beaches and Cream and I hope you do, and Dolores is serving, say hi from us!
Saturday 22 March – part two: we’re definitely in Paris with that smell!
We were served up with our breakfast and bizarrely, when it came out, the yoghurt on Mark’s was substituted on mine with fruit, and of course, what fruit was in there? Apples – and that’s what I’m allergic to, so Mark got those and I took his yoghurt instead. It was a very nice spread and I just felt comfortable after I’d finished eating everything.
We got to the tunnel and sat there for a couple of minutes, waiting to go in, during which time I was texting with Hazel. She was worried we might be late as a result, but we were quickly on the move again and into the tunnel and I managed to fire off a text letting her know that before we entered the tunnel.
One of the Eurotunnel passenger trains we often travel on in our car
When we came out of the tunnel, I took a few photos, but then for the next half hour or so, I just slept, not really have a good night’s sleep for the previous three nights ever since I had the cyst removed from my head on Wednesday.
At one point, we went through heavy rain…
… but thankfully it didn’t last and the next time I woke up, it looked a lot better outside, although nowhere near as nice as when we had left Ebbsfleet.
We both thought that the train moved around a lot more than we remembered, but then again, it may well be that now travelling at faster speeds than it used to, so that could account for that…
I have to say I really couldn’t fault Standard Premier class. They really did look after you and were constantly checking whether you wanted anything else, be it hot or cold drinks. It was a very pleasant way to travel. It’s a shame we haven’t got it back on the return journey on Monday, but then you can’t have everything.
We were soon coming into Paris…
The train de grand vitesse or TGV A Eurostar train, that was logo’ed up with SNCF, the French railway operator, which was a bit odd – maybe they get the cast-offs You always know you’re coming into Paris when the graffiti starts…
Everyone was obviously keen to get off, as there was suddenly a huge scrum by the door. We figured that we’d wait until we actually got into the station, rather than stand up for 10 minutes.
We got off the train and headed down the platform…
… and there waiting at the end were Hazel and Graeme. We spotted them straight away and hugs were exchanged.
We headed down to the car park with Hazel and Graeme warning us that it smelt like Paris and the second we stepped into the elevator, we knew exactly what they meant. Let’s just say that Paris is renowned for smelling like a public restroom in places and this was one of those instances…
We quickly found the car, loaded it up with our cases and off we went.
Next: it’s a bit disturbing to see these in a supermarket…
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your seats on the Eurostar!
Looking forward to more and trying to think what those smells of Paris may be...
My guess being, baked bread or other great scents from a local patisserie! 
), Studios, Epcot dinner at Monsieur Paul tomorrow night and Illuminations. Should be a great start to another fantastic WDW experience! 
If you make it to Beaches and Cream and I hope you do, and Dolores is serving, say hi from us! 
We spotted them straight away and hugs were exchanged. 
Exactly a week ago at this time we were just pulling into the outskirts of Paris. Where does the time go?
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