Disneyland in Paris:

Wow, what a great place to spend time.  We excitedly packed our gear and headed for the International station in London to connect with Eurostar train to Paris.  We got to the station in plenty of time and took our pre printed tickets to the gate for the no fuss boarding.  The gate wouldn’t let us through!!! We scanned it again, no luck!.  An attendant came up and offered to help and she looked at the ticket and said this is for yesterday!!!  I looked at Rod in horror!!! What have I done.  She said I needed to go to the ticket office to purchase a new ticket.  We went along to the ticket office and I went up to a nice young man and explained that I was new to this and have never travelled overseas before (You know the story that you give when you’re grovelling!!)  He said wait a minute he would have to see his supervisor.  He then came back and said we would have to get new tickets ad that would be £189 thank you.  Oh no!!  I said oh well I guess I need to check more carefully in future.  He issued the new tickets and then handed them over and said Keep your money to spend on something else.   I couldn’t believe my luck.  I thanked him very and then departed quickly before he could change his mind.

So, onto the train.  What a lovely smooth ride.  We had a carriage with comfy seats and a drop down tray in front.  The 2 hr 25 mins trip took hardly any time at all and the tunnel under the channel was through in no time at all.  French countryside was very similar to the English.   Paddocks are quite large and not a lot of stock to be seen.  We arrived at Paris and promptly got confused .  Rod eventually found a very nice man who could speak english and was in a ticket booth.  He set us on the right path to Disneyland.  The park is amazing and the rides and things to see and do are incredible.  We became kids again, riding on the rides, buying candyfloss, wandering about looking at the wonderful sights.  The parade was on at 5pm and we were lucky enough to get a place where we could see the parade several times.  What a grand, colourful parade it is.  The Disney characters old and new on beautifully designed floats.  The characters that impressed me the most were of course the Winnie the Pooh float and the soldiers from the Toy Story.  They were so like the ones in the film.  Rod and I rode the merry go round from Mary Poppins, The Peter Pan flight to Never never land and even Space Mission 2 (which was hard, fast and flipped us all over the place.  We went on the small world boat ride through all the dolls of the world and also the old steam train round the whole park.  We stayed in a hotel on site and it was a mexican them one.  Breakfast was well supplied and there was a free bus to the park continuosly running. The park was open from 7am till 10pm so there was plenty of time to see it all.  I would add photos but have had a glitch in that I have sent my photos home to Melanie and thought I had copied them but I didn't.  She will send them back to me and I will add them then.