After an agonizing two hours of trying1 to book Eurostar tickets, I gave up and got a flight to Paris from EasyJet. I am not sure if the bookings problems were Eurostar’s or NatWest’s fault. If my bank is to blame, they have sunk even deeper in my estimation. If it was the train company, they lost two customers because their web interface is unreliable. It failed at every possible stage: listing train times, entering payment information, and processing my credit card.
I am leaving on the afternoon of April 26th (three days after my thesis submission) and returning on April 30th (a few weeks before exams). It would be nice to go for longer, but the middle of an Oxford term is not the time for an extended foreign jaunt.
[1] Over and over and over again, without success.
no worries you can always offset your high carbone travel here
http://www.carbonneutral.com/shop/results.asp?cat1=Flights
Amusing:
Climatologists Secure Funding To Breed Glaciers In Captivity
You could have just ordered the tickets by phone.
Don’t stress about it. The trip should be great.