Our train from Lyon to Paris arrived around 9:00 pm on Dec 28th. We were thankful to be in France's capital after several delayed trains and hours of wandering the overcrowded stations. We purposely left ourselves an extra day in Paris before our discount flight to Glasgow - but we'll touch on that experience in a separate piece. Being smack in the middle of Christmas and New Years Eve, accommodation options were lean and very expensive. We managed to find a tol...

In search of a white Christmas in the French Alps. We stood in line at the Gare de Lyon train station with butterflies in our stomachs. It was 6:15am on Dec 23, two days away from Christmas Day and 24 hours away from one of the countries busiest travel days of the year. Our perfect result had us on an 8:45am train to Bourg St Maurice. We didn't want to think about the worst case scenarios. Train cancelations had the congested railway networked backed up. Th...

The afternoon shocker in Luxembourg had us worried that we wouldn't make it to Paris that day. Fortunately we found another train route that wasn't as direct but had us arrive in Paris nevertheless. We arrived late at the Gare de l'Est train station, one of several major train stations scattered throughout the mega-city. We quickly realized that Paris was much bigger than expected. Although we've traveled to many cities in the 10+ million population category, Pa...