Starting out: London to Venice
Whilst waiting for my house to be rented out and the Eurostar getting more expensive by the day, I decided to book the FlixBus overnight bus from London Victoria on Friday 1st October 2021. Scheduled to depart at 10.30 pm, at 10.50pm there was no sign of it, I took to Twitter to ask, and lo and behold a bright green double decker bus appeared. We set off shortly before midnight, however as we had missed the 2am P&O ferry sailing, we had to wait at Dover for the half past four ferry. I had assumed that Flixbus would take the continual Eurotunnel shuttle. Onboard with the lorry drivers, the Routemaster canteen was the only restaurant serving food, so 4am I ate the most tasteless English vegetarian breakfast I have ever eaten, to the sounds of Europe's great unwashed truckers snoring in any available seat. I lay down on deck for a while, but couldn't sleep. We sped to Lille, but we had missed the connecting bus to Paris. I walked to Lille Gare Flanders, and for ...