Day 4 Thursday 4th June 2009 Our second day in Paris

Day 4 Thursday 4th June 2009 our second day in Paris.
Today Fay decided she would like to by a new skirt so after breakfast we set off in search of one. We did not have to go far. There were lots of shops close to the hotel all having sales. The shops were separate for men and women, were small but the range of clothes was enormous. The women’s clothes were particularly pretty. Fay succeeded; she bought a nice skirt, only €10. I tried to buy a new pair of trousers, but they were all too long in the leg and we did not have time for them to be altered. There were nice trousers for €10 (marked down from €30. It was cheaper to buy a new pair rather than have a one dry cleaned at €11.50. In the afternoon we joined John and others for a train journey through nice rolling pastoral country, to Boulonge on the French coast; this is a French port where the passenger ferry operates from. All rail and truck freight used to travel through here to Great Britain but with the opening of the Channel Tunnel the port traffic has been considerably reduced.