Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

Today will be spent travelling west and north towards home.
We're currently in Lille, France.

First destination - by rail - will be London St Pancras. Then on to Leicester.

But first - once we're up - is to fuel up on the hotel breakfast.
Once our bags are repacked then saunter across the road to wait for the Eurostar in Lille Europe station.

I've got reserved seats for the EMR service out of St Pancras but the flexibility of the Interrail pass means we aren't tied to any specific train (unlike in France).

I've got mixed feelings about heading home, and about this whole holiday. I think I need to process these thoughts & feelings before saying any more.

Au revoir France!

#interrail #CoteBleuBlog #france #holiday #lilleEurope

May 20, 2025 at 5:23amWeb
Show threadAlanMay 20, 2025
@MikeFromLFE It's been an interesting read, thanks.
We keep toying with a European rail trip (flying holds little attraction for us these days) so very useful to read of real experiences.
Show threadMike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺May 20, 2025

@ReCyclist
Thanks for the encouragement.

There's a whole lot of stuff at https://gaylers.me/travel/

But, if you think of anything you want ask, or could usefully be a random blog post - please let me know.

We aren't experts, and our recent non-flying travel experiences are around western Europe.
There's a whole lot of Scandinavia that seems easily visited, and there's 'East of Italy' that is perhaps more challenging.
If we were younger (and Sacha were more mobile) then we'd certainly be looking at both of those.

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Show threadAlanMay 21, 2025

@MikeFromLFE Just been reading your "How do I plan a trip" section, I go big on the planning side myself so this looks very useful!

We're still at the concept stage and need to focus in on potential countries as a first step, but this is all good stuff.