Eurostars

Tennis
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Mum picking us up for lift to station
Eurostar

Sat down, got book and headphones out. And the Americans opposite started talking to us. Cringed at the prospect of awkwardness.

But they were very nice. And we talked all through the journey.

L was a retired VC from UCSD, S had invented a knot-making machine for jewellery makers and had been demonstrating it on some shopping network show in the UK.

Their daughters were called Penny Lane and Abbey Road.

On arriving in Paris, it turned out that they had no Euros or knowledge of the Metro.