After returning our hire car at Victoria station we headed across town to St Pancras station to catch the Eurostar to Paris.
We arrived at the station on a very hot and sticky morning and discovered that all the trains to Brussels were cancelled.
There were hundreds of disappointed and angry travellers everywhere. Very few Eurostar staff helping people with cancellations and/or rebooking. There was a huge queue of people and very little information being provided. It seemed to be an electrical problem and the trains were cancelled until Friday, 3 days later. Someone told us that 600 hundred people were stuck in Amsterdam in a Eurostar train that had a power failure. Presumably due to the heat.
We werent sure if our train was affected but it was only the Brussels trains that werent running.
Our train departed on time and arrived in Paris on time which was pretty good considering the heat of the day and chaos at the train terminal.
When we arrived in Paris it was 42 degrees at around 6pm. We went and checked into our hotel and then went for a walk around the area nearby. Because it was so hot we decided not to use the metro but just stroll and take in the sights and stop in a cafe here and there for a drink and a snack.
We arrived at the station on a very hot and sticky morning and discovered that all the trains to Brussels were cancelled.
There were hundreds of disappointed and angry travellers everywhere. Very few Eurostar staff helping people with cancellations and/or rebooking. There was a huge queue of people and very little information being provided. It seemed to be an electrical problem and the trains were cancelled until Friday, 3 days later. Someone told us that 600 hundred people were stuck in Amsterdam in a Eurostar train that had a power failure. Presumably due to the heat.
We werent sure if our train was affected but it was only the Brussels trains that werent running.
Our train departed on time and arrived in Paris on time which was pretty good considering the heat of the day and chaos at the train terminal.
When we arrived in Paris it was 42 degrees at around 6pm. We went and checked into our hotel and then went for a walk around the area nearby. Because it was so hot we decided not to use the metro but just stroll and take in the sights and stop in a cafe here and there for a drink and a snack.
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