Paris, London and electric eels

Fifteen hours travelling home: Paris - route along the Seine, whimsical wonderings about which restaurant Ratatouille works in, and saw the Eiffel Tower; then pit stop at the coast, in Wimereux, for pizza and petrol; channel tunnel (earlier train at no extra cost!); and navigated (thanks to sat nav on mobile phone, as A to Z left at home) through London night-life, to drop off son (not to partake in night-life - as far as we were aware - but to be nearer to weekend Jazz course).

So a long boring day, that was brightened (or illuminated?) by the astonishing spectacle of (Warning: Childish Nuggett to follow) electric eels seen through the windows of the channel tunnel train!!!

Here are some of littlest's recollections of what she was fortunate enough to see.

"They were absolutely so long and fat, moving quite straight, but also wriggling sometimes. They were going so terribly fast - it was really exciting to watch. Some were black and white, and it was interesting because of the different colours. They started off really dull, then suddenly, in a while, flashed for a long time, then they went dark and new ones came in - loads and loads of them. I think there were also jellyfish and light-up, electric fish, flashing past in a long, straight line. Apparently, the eels are very rare and not everyone gets to see them, so we were extremely, very lucky."

The tooth fairy has been extremely, very lucky too, because the tooth is still in place, host still eating only soft food, but is now dangling at an alarming angle ...

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