Paris; Friday, 28 October, 2016

I’d worked from home so was able to quickly head up to St Pancras to pick up the train. I had a smooth journey through and was into the departures lounge with plenty of time to spare. It turned out that was with too much time as the train then became delayed, a delay that was only made worse as just before we were about to board another train was put into the neighbouring platform and boarding wasn’t allowed to start until the platform had been cleared of all the inbound passengers.

Eventually we set off around 45 minutes late, and as we were on a non-stop service, there wasn’t any option to make up time so by the time we finally arrived into Paris it was rapidly heading towards midnight.

I could have taken the metro out to the hotel, but it would have been pushing it to make it before the last metro of the night headed out to the hotel, so I cheated and headed for the taxi rank and took a taxi out to the hotel where I checked in and turned in for the night.