Bonjour from Paris,
Had a late night on thursday… Blame Ian, Luke Smolenski, and Andrew Verral… All ex-Telstra guys. Good night though, even if I didn’t get to sleep ’till about 1am.

Getting up at 5:23 (should have been *gone* by 5:30) wasn’t fun. Managed to make my way to the meeting point near hyde park well before the specified meeting time though…
The eurostar is… Okay, less legroom than an aircraft… And for the slightly claustrophobic, the total time in the tunnel is less than 30mins… They hit speeds something like 150 mph (rough estimate … We were whipping past cars and trucks doing 70-80mph on the freeway.)

The group I’m with seems to be a fairly good bunch… 46 people total, about 20 are aussies, about the same kiwis, the rest are (iirc) from various parts of the UK. Decent age range too — 20’s to late 30’s is the vast bulk.

Also, Kumuka mix up the tour groups… Some of us on the 10 day tour, some 18, some 24ish, and even a few doing the full 44 day trip.

After arriving at the hotel, A group of us went off to the Eiffle Tower, and went up it… before going off to a group dinner, and cruise. Plenty of photos, but wont be online ’till sometime later.

Aurevouir

Not much to report for the last few days.

Tuesday night/wednesday morning we went out around Westminster and all sorts of other parts of London, taking a bunch of photos. Everything between Westminster Abbey, Big Ben (well, the tower it´s in anyway), and Millenium Bridge. Got back around 2am Wednesday Morning.

Re-Packed my bags again, leaving out a few tech bits which I havn´t used — a few KG less to carry. I´ll pick them back up when I come back.

Thanks to everyone for the emails, SMSs and comments on the blog.

I did try calling a bunch of people today (Thursday, around 5PM Sydney Time) but noone was answering, oh well. If people are looking at their CallerIDs and seeing ¨Unknown Number¨ then that could be me (since CallerID isn´t presente d for most international calls).
Also, please don´t call me on my mobile unless it´s urgent — it costs me a packet to recieve calls on it while overseas (Yes, I pay when you call me). SMS is OK though.

From now, until I get back to Ians (Early June) - posting on the blog will probably be limited and spotty, depending upon availability of internet access at hotels/hostels.

Anyway, gotta go - going out tonight.