It looks like Blogger is back up and running, so here's an update from Paris.
What seems like a long time ago now, we dropped Jake off at school, and John gave us a lift over to Ebbsfleet.
We were in plenty of time for our train and so stocked up with newspaper and magazines.
The train was on time, and pretty full up but we managed to find a spot to stow our bags and wedged ourselves into our seats.
We were in the front carriage, so when Nicky decided to track down the buffet car, it was a rather long walk, and a rather disappointing one too given the floppy toasted sarnies that were on offer.
Once we arrived at Gare du Nord, we cabbed it to the hotel. As we had hoped, it is something of a step up from the last time we stayed in Paris.
Went out for a wander this afternoon (the Arc de Triomphe is a couple of hundred yards from the hotel) and this evening we went for dinner a café / restaurant called Café Lateral.
Tomorrow we plan to go either to Montmartre or the Musee d'Orsay, depending on the weather.