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There weren't any flights at all on Monday. The Flybe flights to Cardiff and Birmingham were full. Easyjet seem to have gone to pieces, and couldn't take me to Bristol. The Eurostar staff were totally useless. One of them ran away when I asked him something.
So yesterday I exchanged my Eurostar ticket for a train to Calais, then decided to aim for a ferry. Quite a few other people had the same idea, though there were rumours that all the ferries were full. The train broke down at Arras, where we spent an hour looking at a snowy field. But the French engineers managed to repair it. I got a ferry and arrived in Dover at 10pm.
Unfortunately the last trains for London had already left. But the Dover port authorities said that we could sleep overnight in the terminal if necessary and organised food, blankets etc for us, and first aid for a sick girl. They also shamed Eurostar into sending four coaches to collect us. They arrived at 2am and took us to London St Pancras. Then they realised that I would have quite a journey to South Wales at 4am and sent me home in a taxi! The meter read £539, which they prepaid.
I finally arrived home at 8am this morning. The whole journey took 18 hours. It wasn't quite the relaxing weekend I planned.
To add insult to injury I got an advertising email from Eurostar suggesting that a trip with them would be an ideal Christmas present!
Now I'm going to bed.
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