Decided to stay in Paris another night, as I couldn't actually do anything yesterday, including booking a bus. And as the woman at the train station wanted 195 euros for a train ticket, that is the only option. I don't even like Paris. Went to the Catacombs, an eerie place, piles of bones stacked up high, in corridor after corridor of old mining tunnels. It took them two years just to move all the bones in, bringing them by the cart load from the cemetary of ...

I left the hotel to try and find an actual hostel to stay in, and managed to get a place at Blue Planet, saving myself all of 3 euros a night. Everywhere is shut in this town today, damn it. Went to see Notre Dame Cathedral, and then the Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise, which is where Jim Morrison is buried, amongst others. That night there was a huge fireworks display around the Eiffel Tower, to celebrate Bastille Day, and 120 years of the tower.

The Eurostar left St. Pancras at 4:30PM, and arrived just a few hours later at about 8. With no booking I wandered Paris for a couple of hours looking for a place to stay. Which came in the form of Hotel Des Arts, at 26 Euros for the night.

Arrived in London on my National Express coach. Ready for Eurostar tomorrow, which hopefully doesn't smell of piss like the coach did....