A very rushed morning/afternoon today. Got up and took the metro to Notre Dame on an absolutely stunning day in Paris. A ton more people as ever but the lines weren’t too bad because it’s free. Another really old church to add to the list. But we’re allowed Pics which is always good.

That’s when the fun started. We had heard from a couple of places that the trains were very rarely full so we had not reserved a seat on the train to Lyon. We went to the train station hoping to get on the 3 pm TGV to Lyon taking 2 hours but were told we need to book them 7 days ahead. A nightmare! We were told there was another train that took 5 hours and left at 1:38pm. So we had to make it back to the hostel, get our packs then catch 2 metro trains to the Lyon train. We arrived at 1:35pm…talk about cutting it fine. But we have arrived in Lyon now and are staying in a hotel and not a hostel which is a great change. Couple of really relaxing days ahead.