A few french obstacles…

As part of my journey to Egypt I first needed to get from Brussels to London. Easy I thought …. after setting off on the 8.30 train and due to get in at 9.30 I settled into my book and watched Belgium and france flash by. Only on arrival into Calais the landscape wasn’t flashing by as quickly as I would have likes it too! After waiting at the station for 20 mins and seeing two other trains zip past we knew something was up… Announcements started coming over the tannoy and we pieced together the story – it appears that a French protester jumped onto the train with a package and whilst he was arrested they weren’t sure where he had put the suspect package…. So they had to take everyone out of the last 10 carriages and rescan all if their luggage. Which wasn’t quick. In fact it took them 3 hours. In which I was sitting there seriously wondering if I was getting to London let alone Cairo! However we were finally on our way and arrived at 12.40. You would have thought that in 3 hours they could have organised a taxi for us…. But only after an hour more queuing did I find myself on the way home for 3 hours sleep before setting out again to meet the team. All in all a pretty knackering start to the trip but just so glad that I made it ( and massive thanks to my boyfriend for helping and putting up with me arriving at 2am!) now onto Cairo, surely that journey has to be less eventful?
Kate