TGV to Paris

We arrived at Gare St-Jean 30 minutes before departure and had to wait with others for our track to be posted.   Major renovations ongoing here.

First Class on the TGV is pretty comfortable 2-1 seating.  Although sitll no Wifi after all these years.  Heck, Thalys has had Wifi for 10 years.  Since the car was full, I was glad we had single seats facing each other.   Although Mrs. SFO777 had a brilliant idea for getting a more comfortable seating arrangement.  Why not buy 4 seats and get an entire 4 seat compartment?   Since I purchased our tickets directly on the SNCF website and not raileurope.com, our tickets only cost $45 each, so it would have only been $180 for the compartment.   Duh... why didn't I think of that?  

Time to check out the dining car.

My croque was surprisingly good.

In any language, this is a bizarre sign. 

Two and a half hours later, we arrived at Paris Montparnasse station in the 14th.

Sometimes, you just luck out.  While everyone else trudged all the way to the end of the track, we took the first escalator right to the taxi stand, where it was only 10 minute, 10 euro ride to our hotel near the Trocadero in the 16th.  Pretty nice views along the drive.