Glasgow-Paris - Day 14

The alarm goes off at 6:30 again and we pack our gear, have a light brekky in the room and make the trek to the train station, next door. I booked the apartment next to the train station so we wouldn't have to walk far. We arrive there and within 15 minutes we are boarding our train. The train ride goes without a hitch and we depart at London Euston station and we need to make our way to St Pancras station to catch the Eurostar to Paris. We have a 1 hour and 20 minute changeover so the walk also proves uneventful. We board the Eusrostar and head to Paris. This also proves uneventful and we arrive in Paris at 5:47pm, on schedule. I call the dude who is meeting us at our apartment to let him know we have arrived and he informs us he will be waiting for us at the apartment. We jump in the taxi and make our way to the apartment which again was uneventful. We get out of the cab and go to the front entrance of our apartment and.....no one is there. We've just spent 7 and a half hours on a train and we are not in the mood for this. I call this dude again and get his answering machine. Ok, I'll give him 5 and call him back again. I give him 10 and I call him back. "I will be there in 2 minutes, please wait at the entrance" we'd already been waiting 30 minutes and it was another 20 minutes before this knobhead rocked up and he's all happy and waiving across the street and as he approaches us he's calling out "Bonjour, bonjour" and I'm thinking, shouldn't that be bonsoir dickhead, your running a bit late? But we all put on our "how ya goin mate" face and he shows us to our apartment. He actually turned out to be an ok bloke in the end. The apartment is quite small but very nice. It is very rustic and as you walk through the entrance hall you walk on a slant because the wooden floor is sloping quite badly. But everything we need is here and best of all, the bakeries, the fruit and veg shops, the supermarket and booze shops are right out the front of our apartment. After Mr Bonjour had gone we dumped our stuff and we head downstairs to get some supplies. First stop, the bakery. This is two doors down from our apartment entrance. We walk in and we ask for two big long baguettes. He bags them and these things are still warm like they only came out of the oven half an hour ago. Now, this is about 7 o'clock at night and we are getting freshly baked bread, amazing! Next stop, the supermarket. This is directly over the road. We stock up on ham and cheese and yogurt and then it's over to the fruit and veg shop which is next door. The fruit and veg is amazing, fresh, colourful and lots of it, still, at 7 o'clock, amazing! We go back up stairs and cut up the bread, the ham, the cheese, the tomatoes and we just eat. We all agree this is the best dinner we have had while we have been on holidays. The bread in Paris is the best. This is one of the things we have been looking forward to and tomorrow.....well tomorrow is crepe day. After a feed we head out to have a look around and the first thing we notice is how much this area has changed. There seems to be so many more restaurants and new pockets that we didn't notice before. We walk for a while before making it back to the apartment and call it a night.

Getting ready to leave our apartment in Glasgow.

On the Eurostar bound for Paris.