Follow up re French train system.
We called in to the ticket office to (1) upgrade our tickets and (2) ask about the strike (greve) on Thursday.
Yes, we can upgrade our tickets to the much more comfortable first-class for EU177 for three of us total. Sounds a bargain.
Yes, the strike will go ahead, but apparently it doesn't affect every service - just some - and they can tell us tomorrow whether our train will be affected or not, and put us on an earlier or later one if necessary. Very civil, are the French. Non, she did not recommend buying our first class tickets now, in case our train was affected, even though there would be a refund. She was sure there would be a seat for us if we had to change our train.
Don't follow the logic, but that is the story, straight from "la bouche du cheval" - the horses mouth.
Once we get ourselves to Paris, we have to find out the latest about the traffic controllers greve!
Next installment tomorrow....
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