Day 11 – Thank God its Over!
Good day and welcome to Day 11. This was going to be one bugger of a travel day. Our Eurostar left at 10:40 am and we returned to Leeds at about 4pm. Leeds had never looked so good.
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Epilogue
So what did we learn from our time away? We’ve been thinking about these things and have come up with following list:
1. If you have to be away from home at Christmas it is mandatory to treat yourself. Not just treat, but to completely overdo and outdo yourself. Do everything in your power to forget the fact that you aren’t at home with your family and friends. And even after all that, you’ll still feel like you would have rather have been home.
2. Christmas concerts are better than Christmas mass …ti-ii-dings of c-om-om-fort and joy…comfortandjoy…ti-ii-dings of com-om-fort and joy.
3. Church bells should ring far more often than they do.
4. The measure of whether you will like London or Paris more comes right down to whether you like pubs or bistros more.
5. It is incredibly difficult to get good value for money in accommodations in London.
6. For sheer historical importance, the Tower of London is likely the best site to tour in the UK. This is closely followed by Westminster Abbey. One of us did our fourth year thesis on Edward Longshanks and now we’ve touched his grave. Hammer of the Scots indeed.
7. Any restaurant in Paris, no matter whether it is up-scale or small-scale will serve you perhaps the best wine you have ever tasted for the same price as a cup of coffee and croissant.
8. We talk about, perhaps even fixated on, food much more on holiday than in real life. I mean, what is a holiday other than an excuse to see a bunch of new stuff between feasts?
9. Paris is stunning no matter what time of year you see it.
10. Eventually we must all return to normal life. After all, fat, drunk and stupid … I mean tired … is no way to go through life.
