Booking for the South of France
On Friday, I’m going away for a few days to the South of France. My late wife always threatened me with the legendary Pierre Gruneberg at the Grand Hotel du Cap-Ferrat to get me to swim.
So I’m going!
My doctor says that I shouldn’t fly and although I sometimes disagree with medics, I’ll take the advice, so that I can go on the train. My late wife and I always said we’d take the train one way and fly the other. Now, I’m going to take it all the way from Cambridge via St. Pancras and Paris to Nice. And all the way back, but that trip means changing at Lille instead of Paris.
The cost is £510 for the round trip, but that is a fully-flexible first class. I’d pay half-that to just get to Manchester from Euston on Virgin Trains, so I think it is good value! Interestingly in the 1980s, you used to pay £300 return to fly London to Nice in Economy.
It will be the longest trip, that I’ve ever done on a train.
The Anonymous Widower 
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vous avez tres bon gout pour vous héberger
à ST jean Cap F !
mais vous savez il n y a pas une grande différence de confort entre la 2 nd class et la 1 er ere sur le TGV !
mais a big difference of lot of money
I hope you enjoy your trip in south France
you are right for it s the good season to go there , now
but with your LOtus Elan
it will be more pleasant
Regards
fred from Paris
Comment by trimar | March 25, 2010 |
I’m not allowed to drive at the moment because of the stroke. But I’m only paying about 250€ all the way from London to Nice and that’s a fully flexible first class ticket. I will get full wi-fi though.
First class does make a difference though on Eurostar. Those trains incidentally are looking rather tired.
But I will get a gluten-free meal on Eurostar, which is good.
Comment by AnonW | March 25, 2010 |