Morning dawned, partly cloudy but nice, and our cab driver arrived in a small school bus to take us to the station. We were glad to be early, as we needed to use our painfully awkward French to determine whether to use our Eurail passes to go to Bayeux or not. Barry didn't think so, but wanted to double-check. We only have so many days of travelling on them, so we knew we had to choose wisely. When we confirmed that it only cost 17 Euros per adult for the hour an...

Time to try out our Eurail passes. We got up, skipped breakfast and headed for the train, wanting to leave ourselves plenty of time to get settled. We arrived at the station in our usual state of confusion. Barry's itinerary read like this:10:32 Catch train. Well, that's all well and good, but it is the "catch train" part that complicates things. First, we had to validate our Eurail passes. Oops, we need a reservation? But we have Eurail tickets?! Oh, ...

We were sad to say goodbye to England. We know, strange but true! We found the people really helpful and fun and our days there were charming and unforgettable. However, Sunday came and it was time to head for our next destination, Paris. We'd been to Paris before but were hoping to share some of the romance with the kids. However, it didn't start off that way. We caught the Eurostar train (that goes through the Chunnel) in plenty of time, thank goodness, but wh...