First day of travel to Paris（last December 26, 2010）

From December 26 to 30, we We went on a trip to Paris with our friends from December 26 to 30.

At first we planned to go to London by National Rail. But two days before the first travel day we knew the National Rail won't run on Christmas day (25th) and boxing day(26th).  （∋_∈）
We had to change our plan...we booked a parking near St. Pancras (International Rail Station) before we left. Fortunately, we could get to there by car without trouble. 

And then we got to Paris by Eurostar♪

There is the St Pancras International Train Station in part of this building.
It looks like a castle, isn't it? I don't know if the building has some offices or something.
It was really beautiful building !!!

It was a terrible  terribly cold day. But we had plenty of times in there.

We left our house not a little fast time earlier than usual because we thought the road will be overcrowded.

Inside of the St. Pancras was not so huge The station was not as big as I thought but it was new and clean.

Inside the station We we decided to spend a time in a warm cafe and ate our breakfast(o^^o)♪

There are were so many people were waiting for depart Eurostar while we were waiting for our train's (Eurostar) departure because the day it was boxing day.

Almost all of the England's train is older than Japanese one. Eurostar was no exception.

The seats are like this. It was clearn and not so old.  We also had also a table. 

They are our good friends(o^^o)　We had a great fun time with them.

It takes only two and half hours from London to Paris. 

I knew the train went into the tunnel and I thought it would be more exciting ... but that was ... actually just another tunnel with some lights.

Finally ! We're in Paris ！！！ 

We made the switch to / transferred in the "underground"(subway). That was not under the ground its just subway.

At first I saw this view of the Paris. This was my first view of Paris. I couldn't feel what is the different difference from between England and Paris. / I couldn't feel what is it's difference from England.
But I felt some things in the evening or later...

We took a walk to the Eiffel Tower after we arrived in our Hotel.

We could see the Eiffel from our room.

What a an awesome view !!!

Sometimes the lights of the Eiffel was changed to be twinkling suddenly twinkle.
It was difficult to took a picture. Can you image imagine of that?

We saw many people who were selling some very small stationary articles of Eiffel Tower or some toys. Smaller stationary article of Eiffel was only one Euro... Just one Euro.

And they They stood close to each other even though they are for sell selling the same goods.

How many stationary articles should they sell ... ? I saw a part of Paris in this night.