Oops, it must be Paris

 

We managed to get caught up in that London Heathrow outage, so we couldn't get back from Germany. Undeterred, we decided to turn it into a road trip adventure and to come back across Europe instead. It's how we ended up in Paris. 

We booked a local train to Stuttgart, then an IC to Karlsruhe, where we could pick up the ICE 9590 fast train from Berlin to Paris. It only stopped in Strasbourg and then Paris l'Est. It took us out of the system and away from all the hanging around waiting to be gamed by the airlines, which said that our flight was still running until around mid-afternoon of the day we should return. 

By that time, we were already on the 320km/hr express through Germany and France and arrived in Paris around when the (now cancelled) flight was supposed to take off. 

And so to our hotel in Paris. It's the first rain we've experienced on the whole trip, but this Hotel OKKO is right next to the arrival platform in Paris. Gare l'Est is right next to Gare du Nord, for our next-day getaway to Londres.

'Travellin' light.