Traveling with Ray Owens

Today was our transfer day to Southampton to take our cruise out tomorrow.

We are traveling to London from Paris, and we decided to take the Eurostar train that goes through the Chunnel.  The Chunnel (short for Channel Tune) was opened in 1994 and connects Britian and France.  There are two train tunnels and one service tunnel.  The English Channel is relatively shallow.  The sea bottom is part of the limestone crust that you can see in the White Cliffs of Dover, in England and the cliffs at Normandy beach in France.

To check in for the international Eurostar train at Gare du Norde is much like an airport.  The check in took almost an hour and the wait with the nearly 900 fellow passengers is a bit crowded.  

The ride is quite nice and there is not much to see when you enter the almost 32 mile tunnel part of the trip.  But we made it.

We got to St. Pancras International train station and found our driver that was going to drive us to see Stonehenge then on to Southampton where we will spend one night before boarding our cruise.

The ride through the tunnel as uneventful and stress free. 

I Southampton we found, with help of the hotel clerk, a nice English pub for dinner.  The pub caters to families and other people just looking for a pint. 

It was a good day.