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Ride reports & bike news from Chain Reaction's Mike JFri Mar 29 2:29:09 2024 / +0000 GMTUniversal Post Manager 1.1.2 [ www.ProfProjects.com ] It's Tour Time; all roads lead to France!
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Fri Mar 29 2:29:09 2024 / +0000 GMThttp://www.chainreactionblogs.com/diary/?p=7161One of the perks of flying United Business or First is being able to take a shower at the Sheraton at CDG airport.
We did leave DC almost two hours late ("late arriving aircraft" was the reason given) but made up a fair amount of time in the air and arrived in Paris just over an hour late. Not an issue for us, because arriving at 8am still gave us plenty of time to make our 10:16 train connection to Lourdes, even including a stop at the Sheraton Hotel (which sits right on top of the TGV train station) for a shower, a little-known and rarely-used perk of flying on a paid business class ticket.
We are, however, in danger of misconnection our train from Bordeaux to Lourdes though. This is the first time the TGV has ever let me down; it's never before been even a minute behind schedule, but we had a couple of unexplained stops in the middle of nowhere which have put us 15 minutes behind schedule, and our time between trains is 10. That's not looking too good!]]>71612014-07-18 05:00:442014-07-18 12:00:44