Last night I placed a
wake-up call for 7:30am. I however woke up a little before 6am. I tried to go
back to sleep, but just wasn’t able to get back to sleepy land, so I simply got
up and took a shower. Finally, the wake up call time past and came. It seemed
that there would be no call this morning. Luckily I was already up so I got
Mama up and we started to pack up. Anna wasn’t hungry so I headed down to the
buffet by myself. After I ate, I went to go see the concierge and talked to him
about calling us a cab at 10am. 
December 1st
was scheduled to have another strike by around 30,000 french workers on the
Champs Elysee. The roads around our hotel were shutdown and no motor vehicles
were allowed on the road. Wasn’t prepared for this one. I went back upstairs
and got Anna motivated to leave early. We finished packing and got a cab around
9am. One of the bellmen walked us a few blocks to meet a cab and off we went to
Gare du Nord or also known as Paris Nord train station.
The train ride to
London was not until 2:13pm, so we first stopped at a café right next to the
train station. We stayed there for about 2 hours and had a few beers. Then we
went off to the train station and headed to the main café there. Had some more
drinks and Anna ordered a French soup. Finally it came time to go through
customs and eventually onto the train. We ended up getting a service called
standard premium or what we came to find out is First Class. Wow! Nice seats
and great experience. Got treated like London royality!
The ride took about
2.5 hours and am looking forward to doing it again. We really got to see quite
a bit of the country side of both France and England. It’s really neat to see
the differences of both as the train rolls along. We got off the train,
exchanged some dollars and off we went to the Underground (London’s subway).
Onto the Victoria Line and off to Oxford Circus station and then we hopped onto
the Bakerloo line to Waterloo station. Both of us were happy to finally arrive.
We walked to the hotel and arrived there at 4:30pm. It was pitch black in
London already at that time. Really weird to see it that dark so early already
in the season.
Checked in, dropped of
the bags and off we went to explore the city. Ready to see everything in the
full glory of light in the morning. Sherlock Holmes Bar was our choice for
dinner tonight and it was about .5 from the hotel. Really good food. Anna had
the Big Fish and Chips plate which came with a Cod filet (really big), White
tail (small fish like sardines, but served fried), chips (fries), pickled
onions and peas. I had a Steak & Ale pie which was basically a shepards pie
along with an order of chips.
Walked back to the
hotel around8:30pm and headed to bed to grab some well needed sleep.
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