Another 5am start. Caught a cab to waverly train station. Got on our train to london, all fine.
Slept most of the way to london, caught our next train to Paris, all too easy.
Once in Paris we made our way via the tube to the other train station, the one that gets us to Barcelona. Its so much harder to get around in Paris than in the UK. Much much harder in a place that doesnt speak engligh.
We went up to the ticket desk to buy our tickets. You cant reserve tickets using your eurail pass on the internet, you have to do it in person. But by all reports everyone else who used eurail never had a problem. So we asked for two 2nd class tickets on the night train to barcelona...no dice, full. Morning train on the 3rd? nope. Evening? full. Morning and evening on the 4th?...you guessed it, full. so we bought tickets for the 5th, and now our whole plan has been thrown out. we only have 5 days in Barca now, and have 3 nights in paris unplanned. the joys of travel. going to book tickets for the next two months in advance now, this will not happen again.
We managed to find a hostel with two beds free for 3 nights, but its a pretty crap place. Probably the worst hostel so far. Its called Blue Planet. Grabbed a subway for dinner, dont know how they understood my order but it was close enough. and just went to bed. Once again no wifi in the hostel.
Paris is pretty crazy, the drivers are insane. People arent anywhere near as helpful or nice as the were in the UK.
