Work trip to Paris, France - 10th to 11th December 2006

Straight after the Chelsea game, it was straight to Waterloo for a Eurostar to Paris - to talk to a group of clients the following day. I arrived quite late on Sunday night, to the usual horrendous taxi queue at Gare du Nord.

After a bad night's sleep, it was up at a horrendously early hour (even worse considering that it was an extra hour earlier than that in the UK), to get to the conference. Held in a nice hotel in a very posh part of Paris, it had all of those small touches that the French do so much better than us.

The highlights of the trip came once the job was done. A cab back to Gare du Nord, which went past the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, through the road tunnel where Princess Diana died, and past the lovely Gare de l'Est building. I have not really seen Paris by road much before, as all of my previous trips have involved the Metro or walking, so this was good to see. After that, a fantastic steak frites for 11 Euros, the kind that in London is just impossible to get - even though it is pretty simple. Then the train home, with a very satisfied stomach.