Saturday 12 October – Venice to Paris

This morning our hosts had arranged for a porter to come up and get our bags and take them to the Rialto Bridge stop to catch the ferry to the airport. That was a big help; it was very foggy and the waterbus took quite a while. 

Marco Polo airport is very big; the bag drop queue was very long and then after security we had to work out where to go. Finally we got to the gate lounge about 40 minutes early only to find that the flight was delayed; we ended up taking off almost 2 hours later than our scheduled time. Train from Charles de Gaulle was pretty easy, after find the lifts tucked away In odd places. Then we had to get the Metro and that’s where things started to get very difficult; carrying bags up and down stairs (with an occasional offer of help or directions). In the process of ups and downs and ins and outs, to my shock I found that I must have dropped my phone somewhere and it’s gone. How dependent we are on our devices! We have wifi here, so that’s a blessing. Jenny has her phone but wasn’t using roaming because it’s very expensive for her and we were using my GPS constantly.

So now we need a miracle  - God can do that! Otherwise, He obviously has a reason in allowing this to happen, but it would be such a blessing to get my phone back. Tomorrow being Sunday we still may not find anyone who can point us in the right direction for lost property on public transport. It does have my driver’s licence in it, so that will identify the phone

So now we are settled into our BnB in the Glaciere area of the Latin Quarter. Quite comfortable and very quirky décor. A quiet spot, even on a Saturday night. 

We’ve had a walk around the area and tomorrow will hopefully get to Sacre Coeur – there’s a marathon on through the city, so some of the Metro’s won’t be running. Probably we’ll also go to the Eiffel Tower and through Champs Elysee etc, as well as maybe the Orangerie.

Wine and cheese, dinner and off to bed!