Train London to Alicante

I went by train on 9th April 2014 to Spain. This meant getting a local train from home to Vauxhall, then the tube to Kings Cross/St Pancras, EuroStar train from there to Paris and then meto from Gare du Nord to Gare du Lyon, TGV from there to Barcelona, then a RENFE train from there to Alicante.
At St Pancras station in London, where the Eurostar trains now depart from (I wish they had stayed at Waterloo, much nicer) there is a public piano, so I played a few tunes on that.
I was pleased and surprised to see a public piano at Gare du Lyon in Paris, so I also played on that and nearly missed my Barcelona train!. That is not me playing in the picture

The piano at Gare du Lyon

The piano at Gare du Lyon was in better conditoin that the one at St Pancras and had 3 pedals.

Before heading onto the Metro to travel from Gare du Nord to Gare du Lyon I took a look outside Gare du Nord, alas not much had changed since my last visit, some one was urinating against the station wall, a beggar came up to me hoping for some money, I soon returned inside.
The environment outside Gare du Lyon much nicer.

THE SULTANS ELEPHANT

London had a visit from a French street theater company (Royal Deluxe) for the weekend of 6-7th May 2006.
The show started on Thursday evening when a spaceship "landed" in Waterloo Place, London (just of The Mall, up the steps by the ICA (picture)

This spaceship had a girl as its passenger and she went for a walk around Central London.

The Sultan had arrived through timetravel on his elephant and pursued the girl spacetraveller.

Eventually on Sunday evening the girl bade fare well to the Sultan and heis elephant and returned to her spaceship to fly awy from London.

You can see some photographs that I took here