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Heading to the platform at St. Pancras International.08:59:18
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I brought my old Italian phrase book with me to attempt to brush up on my incredibly limited Italian a bit whilst on the train.13:16:07
Now in Paris, Chie here posing on a bridge over the Seine next to Notre Dame.
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Me in a park with some roses nearby.13:19:16
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Notre Dame again.13:20:41
We decided to go for lunch here, at Le Grenier de Notre Dame. Apparently the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Paris.
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My lunch in Le Grenier - seitan escalope.13:37:32
We weren't exactly sure what Chie's was.14:31:52
The TGV at Gare de Lyon, which would take us to Turin.14:46:00
Chie on the TGV - first class of course!
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I thought this miniature coffee cup was quite cute, although the sense of scale is a bit lost in this picture.16:18:21
Attempts to take pictures of the French countryside as we whizzed through it at around 300 km/h.17:30:17
A sort of second lunch / early dinnertime sandwich on the TGV.17:32:56
The train was much slower for the second half of the journey, as it had the Alps to negotiate. Which you can't really see here because of the trees.
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...the foothills of the Alps, on the French side.18:03:30
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Always hard to get decent pictures of the scenery from the TGV.18:09:48
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Can see snow now!18:14:28
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The Trenitalia train here signifies we've now crossed the border into Italy.
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A partially ruined monastery or something up on the hill there.19:56:53
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In Turin now, walking from Porta Susa station where we arrived, to Porta Nuova where our hotel was.
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Nice arcades in Turin.21:12:04
Mosaic at the entrance to our hotel.21:12:24
Entrance to our hotel.21:21:56
That's the rather grand facade of Porta Nuova station.
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Pizza for dinner! At a place called Reginella. This was very good.21:51:38
Chie was a bit tired I think.21:51:49
Me and our pizzas.22:26:16
The neon sign for Reginella.
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Picture of the two of us in a mirror in one of the arcades, before heading back to our hotel.