Today was our last day in Paris. We
woke up late, again, then packed up and went to do some washing.
Once that was sorted, we left our luggage with the hotel for a while
and went for a walk to grab some lunch.
After lunch we caught a bus out to
Italia 2, a shopping centre nearby, and did some shopping before
heading back to collect our luggage and head to the train station.
We were on the overnight sleeper train from Paris to Venice.
This was going to be an adventure.....
There were 4 beds in each compartment and we were pretty sure we had
the entire cabin to ourselves when a guy came in. We thought that
hopefully there was only one, but no, there was a second one too.
The first guy was ok, he was quite and kept to himself, but the
second was extremely noisy. Everything he did was loud, from playing
games on his phone to making phone calls.
I went down to the food carriage to get
dinner and waited in the very very slow line to get a very average
meal to take back to the cabin. We had dinner and set ourselves up
for sleeping. I hadn't been asleep long before I was woken up by a
god awful smell. The loud guy had decided that the cabin was a
wonderful place to eat a can of something that looked like sardines.
The smell was like cat food left out in the sun for a few days, maybe
the cat food would have smelt better than this stench.....
After it cleared we were finally able
to get to sleep. Well something that was sort of like sleep. We
were constantly woken by bumps, people knocking on doors, loud guy
snoring, train station stops, you name it it woke us up. This was
possibly the worst ever nights sleep either of us has had.
By 9.30am the next morning we were in
Venice and glad to be rid of the sleeper train.
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