We had a quick stay in London, checking out a couple of sights on Thursday, and departed early on Friday on the Eurostar train to Paris. The Eurostar uses the Chunnel (tunnel under the English Channel), and is one of the fastest trains in Europe. The journey took about 3 hours.
From Paris we travelled for a bit over 3 hours to Stuttgart on a TGV train. The GPS said that it got to over 320km/h.
After arriving in Stuttgart we got on one last train; A S-Bahn train (city/suburban train). This took us to Beutelsbach, which is the closest station to the house of Rebekahs relatives Dani and Jochen and their 16 month old daughter Sarah. They welcomed us at the station and we have enjoyed staying with them since.
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Hi
We stumbled on your page when we were googling for "Tandem" and "Eurostar" - we're thinking of taking our tandem with us on the train to Brussels next month. It seems from your account that you managed to get a tandem onto Eurostar. Is that right? Was there any problem?
Reading your blog brought back happy memories of some cycling adventures we had before our baby arrived. We took the tandem from Hook of Holland down to Heidelburg, the Black Forest and back up the Rhein and Saar, then to Brugge. We then had to cycle to Calais across the bleak countryside with a nasty headwind, because the Zebrugge/Ostend ferry operators wouldn't allow the tandem on board due to a silly reason of "no space"! Otherwise it was a great summer trip.
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