Not a great deal to report today. We checked out of the hotel in Nice and headed via tram for 1 euro each to the Nice-Ville station and waited in the general hall for the platform details to come up on the departures board. Rod had booked a duplex table on the TGV for this trip, in which one person sits facing one direction, and the other sits in the directions both facing each other with a little fixed table in the middle. Kind of like a table for two in a restaurant. Very cosy - but it guarantees at least one person is facing the right way for the whole journey, even if the train changes directions.
And there we sat for six hours. The first three hours was spent meandering back through the magnificent Meditteranean coastline through Cannes, St Raphael, Toulon and back through Aix-en-Provence TGV and then Avignon TGV. Once clear of Aix, the driver was able to show off the full capabilities of the train and we hurtled all the way to Paris at extremely fast speed. Every so often, the speed would drop a fraction and you could feel your back come away from the seat. The most terrifying part was when another train passed us in the opposite direction (also at high speed). We travelled through some truly magnificent countryside in the process and arrived in Gare de Lyon, Paris mid-afternoon.
Checked into our lovely little hotel here in Paris for the final few days of our journey. We then walked around the Marais area, where we are staying, right next to the imposing Hotel de Ville. We now have our bearings and will be back at it tomorrow.
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