Saturday, 3 May 2025

A Mini Jaunt…Paris(again!)

Yep here again …the journey was pretty good all in all especially the French leg on the TVG.Very comfortable and very on time(Quelle Suprise as the Germans don’t say)got a taxi from Gare du Nord to Saint Lazaire,it’s not far as the driver told me,he was reluctant to accept the fare but I explained I was’nt strolling around town with my bags at 10-30pm so he made sure I racked up a plus ten Euro ride.I knew it was going to happen so c’est la vie an’ all that…

Once inside the hotel signing in and they produced a 507 key card I frantically looked around for a lift but no dice…a long long hike up five flights of winding steep steps.If you’ve ever seen the film “In Bruges” you’ll understand my trepidation…



It’s a once a day thing with a rest at every floor! I have also set up base camps at levels 2 & 4…got my dates wrong too in yesterday’s blog,I’m here an extra day so not back in London until the 6th.Just in time to miss the Arsenal fans get beaten by PSG…

Had the situation everyone dreads earlier today.Public toilet at Saint Lazaire station,close the door,no paper…arrgghh.Luckily I am always equipped with my trusty Co-op packet of tissues and of course once done & dusted informed the assistant.I don’t know why the previous occupant hadn’t done so.Pure ignorance or malevolence or probably both…

Managed to get radio 5 on the train moving through to Paris but unfortunately they didn’t have the commentary from the game,just very sparse updates.Apparently we could or should have got something from the game…the subject of Wolves player of the season is interesting.No doubt Cunha will win it,probably deserved but also a doomed attempt by Wolves fans in an effort to get him to stay.He’s determined to go but the lad’s very much the Premier League’s Chinese panda,conditions have to be just right for him to flourish.My thoughts are the proposed move to a toxic Man Utd dressing room will mess him up…

There are other candidates of course Gomes & Andre in midfield have both been excellent but it’s hard to think of them as single entities.They’re our Morecambe & Wise or possibly more accurately our Burke & Hare…a purely left field choice for me would be our magnificent centre back Emmanuel Agbadou.Before his arrival our defence was as leaky as White House war plans.But now it’s locked down like the KGB on high security (sort of) Anyway Agbadou gets my vote simply because teams can’t just lob hopeful balls into our box anymore and score easily…

French barman calling 
All the people sitting outside in the blazing sun idiots . I suggest he could lower the canopy “Non” laughs…see,just like us.

Laters peeps…

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