Friday last week was my last day for tying up all loose ends before I begun my 'Eurotrip' - and I put it in bunny ears because I'm more here to study at the London University of Arts in their interior design summer course - OAH YEAH!
So back to the Friday, there I was getting my nails done, buying all the right adaptors and attempting to buy mine and Julia's tickets to Paris.
The Plan
Sunday
3:30pm Arrive in London and head on to the hotel my dad booked for the night.
8:00pm Dad arrives at hotel (he was coming home from a business trip and redirected past London so we would meet up! isn't that adorable?! Otherwise between his trip and mine we wouldn't have seen each other for over 2 months!)
Monday
Sleep in. Taxi into town. Drop my luggage off at a friend. Visit old relatives. Have lunch. Dad goes back to the airport for his flight home. I meet up with Julz (my travel buddy this trip) at our friends place in London who now lives here with her husband and a baby on the way! Grab smaller bags packed for Paris. Train station. Take away food. Train. BOOM - PARIS!
We had booked our accommodation weeks ago as Paris get incredibly busy, spend a ridiculous $1000 on return train tickets that I had booked on the Friday (mind you, I have yet to find anyone who got so ripped off! but we were determined!) andddd then this is how Monday really went.
*achem*....Monday....
(Train leaves at 8pm and the gate closes at 7:30pm)
4:00pm leave dad and go meet Julz at our friends place
6:00pm we are on our way to the train station at Kings Cross st. Pancras International
7:00pm buy delicious take away dinner
7:15pm were outside the check in
7:16pm me: "k, Julz, take out your passport"
Julia: "what?"
Me: "Your passport......"
Julia: "oh shit....."
Me - Paris flashing before my eyes
Me: "ok, we have a few minutes to find it, ill call Sara (our friend) to look at her place and you pull your bag apart!"
**********lots of swearing, sweat, weird looks******
Julia later found that on the Heathrow lost and found website an Australian passport had been listed as found since the day of her arrival - how lucky?!?!?!?! 35 people had lost their passport that day...i think thats pretty insane dont you??
anyway we missed our train and lost the tickets!!! then we cancelled our accommodation (in hindsight though, that was probably not the best idea) out of fear of being charged for not showing up...and there we were, at the station in a situation we never expected to happen.
Julia: "are you hungry?"
Me: "You know those girls that are just all 'oah noo I'm so stressed I cant eat!'...yeah I'm not one of them. And I'm upset! but I'm going to sit and enjoy my mixed grilled veggie salad with goats cheese on the side and balsamic dressing!
Tuesday we attempted to go again and Julia kindly offered to book and pay for both our return tickets but the problem was not accommodation - there was none. SO there went my trip to Paris with Julz. I'll try again on Sunday with some friends from home who are planning on being there.
After leaving the train station with all our bags for the second time (after our failed attempt of Tuesday) we called it. Tok our bags back to Sara's, went to Leicester Square went out for a stunning dinner - with lots and lots of wine - booked at theatre show for the next night, went to a comedy show that night and planned a shopping trip for the next day. Needless to say todays modern society has the best remedies for bad situation such as these; a gorgeous white white, blogging and retail therapy. Could we be a worse society?? probably
Anyway, its 7:30am Wednesday morning. Thought I'd update the old blog and all. Missing my Vegimite on toast right about now but looking forward to my day of shopping! Fingers crossed I'll see - and then post - some beautiful interior designs. Follow me on twitter on The Runaway Design Company for more interior tips and pictures. It's updated more than my blog.
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