Daily Archives: 3 Jan ’09
TGV
Admittedly we did have to spend two hours in Gare de Lyon, so we were getting cold by the time train 6585 was announced… but, oh my! it was certainly worth the wait! Our small group of three had a table for four in the … Read More →
Paris
Our journey to Paris was as uneventful as expected: check-in went smoothly, the service ran perfectly on time, and I arrived a little more confident in public transport than when I had set off. Gare du Nord was busy, and ticket desks were few (our … Read More →
Eurostar
Despite our best efforts running along station platforms and dashing for taxis, we have arrived too late to board our 10:23 Eurostar to Paris. We’ve already checked the Internet during our journey so far and determined that this will force us to miss all our onward … Read More →
Departure
I’m standing on my driveway with four bags, a huge coat, and a total lack of sleep. Ten hours ago some alerts fired to let me know there was some sort of weird network event at one of Faelix’s clients. Sure enough my mobile phone … Read More →
Marek wishes that VF’s engineers didn’t reboot things at 20:00 Friday; and that VF’s kit didn’t randomly forget stuff when rebooted. It’s happened before, and it seems to have happened again; only this time it’s when I wanted to get some sleep (for a change). … Read More →
First class in the TGV to Geneva