Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

…where you didn’t expect it to be. I’ve just got back from a five-day trip to the UK which has left me speechless with surprise. I realise that after twenty-five years here and not many visits there, I have become rather used to the French way of life. Similarly, I’ve been brain-washed into thinking that we are fortunate enough to have the very best of everything.

Our trains are not! SNCF managed to make every train I took, including Eurostar, late. OK, they changed my tickets without a quibble and up-graded me to first class because they were short of space but that didn’t help my friend who had to spend two hours extra waiting for me at St. Pancras. On the way home my connection in Paris was cut so fine by delays that I had to do the half-mile sprint across the train station, only to find that…