| I am not an indoor person, I love to go out and visit | | | | lives and thanks to family, friends and of course |
| new places whenever I get time and money. And | | | | Eurostar train, which made our trip memorable. |
| fortunately I am able to collect people to roam around | | | | I think, it is important for everyone to know what to do |
| every time, I appreciate and am thankful to my family | | | | during your trip and how to plan it properly. Few tips |
| and friends as they are always with me. After I had | | | | you should remember while planning a trip to Europe - |
| traveled the entire country, I wanted to go to some | | | | |
| new place, luckily in a get together, one of my friends | | | | 1. Without proper planning, you will face problems while |
| told me about her trip to Europe explaining that the | | | | you travel and it is practically not possible to plan better |
| Europe is a must visit place and showed her | | | | trip while you are traveling. |
| photographs which totally impressed me. Finally when I | | | | 2. Find for cheap air tickets, train tickets, concert tickets |
| made up my mind, I Googled around few keywords | | | | and hotels. You should best avail all discounts available |
| and found various options to reach Europe from UK | | | | so that you can travel more with the same money. |
| including Ferries, Bus, Eurostar Train, Flights and I found | | | | 3. Must carry a digital camera / video camera and |
| that the cheapest and best keeping in mind the time | | | | chargeable batteries. A universal power converter plug |
| and cost, Eurostar was a better option. | | | | is a must, else, you will feel yourself handicapped when |
| It was totally a new place when landed at Heathrow | | | | you reach hotel |
| Airport, in London on our Day 1 after a long journey. | | | | 4. While booking your hotel rooms, ensure you manage |
| The next day, we packed our bag packs, totally in | | | | to get complementary breakfast, or dinners etc. |
| tourist clothes and took a London bus tour to see such | | | | 5. Drink only mineral / bottled water while you travel |
| a beautiful city of the world. It was month of May | | | | 6. In places like London, must carry an umbrella and a |
| soothing climate and we hung around here and there, | | | | torch. |
| clicked photographs, getting familiar with norms of UK. | | | | 7. You must have knowledge of traffic rules as you |
| We visited London Eye, Madame Tussuad, Tower | | | | would be crossing roads and streets. |
| Bridge, Trafalgar square, Piccadilly Circus. We went to | | | | 8. It is advised to carry a small dictionary of the |
| Oxford next day and saw the University and some | | | | language as may be required from country to country. |
| other places as well. There are many ways to travel in | | | | 9. Do write your experience, upload your photos on |
| UK you can go by Train, bus airbus or you can hire | | | | daily basis, which will help you keep your memories |
| your own taxi. London underground was the best | | | | fresh. |
| experience to travel local in London. | | | | 10. The trains in UK / Europe are on time always and |
| We had already booked entire trip tickets and we | | | | you must reach your station well in advance |
| traveled to Paris from London in Eurostar. Paris is | | | | 11. You must not interact with any stranger during your |
| capital of France and after reaching Paris, we took | | | | trip and try to be friendly with him. Of course, you can |
| some rest and this time we did not waste our time in | | | | make friends but you need to take care before you |
| resting much because Paris is such a nice city where | | | | come closer to them |
| you just want to look at the fantasy of nature and | | | | 12. You should take some common medicines you |
| world famous creation of artists. We just wanted to | | | | generally take in your country since you would not be |
| capture every place in our cameras you will not | | | | familiar with the kind of simple medication in a foreign |
| believe a point that came where we were running | | | | country |
| short of memories. We visited Pont Royal and the | | | | 13. You must ensure that you are carrying overseas |
| Louvre Museum, Arc De Triomphe at Night, Eiffel | | | | valid insurance policy document with you |
| Tower, Place de la Concorde and many museums | | | | 14. You should make a record of all your credit cards, |
| and gardens they all are full of creation and beauty. | | | | and other important cards held by you. In the event of |
| We had to cut down our plans as we had to get back | | | | any loss of the same, you will have handy record with |
| to London and from there we had to fly back to our | | | | you. |
| country. From Paris to London, we again took Eurostar | | | | 15. You should not take excessive currency with you |
| because we had taken Eurostar Group Travel | | | | and try to use your cards as much as possible |
| Booking facility and had pleasure taking it. We came | | | | 16. A big savings is taking an international SIM Card |
| back to London and all were discussing Paris trip and | | | | from your country. This will be helpful for you to |
| travel. Everyone was happy and for me it was pride | | | | receive free calls and do cheaper outgoing long |
| who brought smile on my family and friends faces. I | | | | distance calls. |
| enjoyed it too. Next day we got back to our country | | | | 17. and finally, you should not drink too much while you |
| and I guess we would cherish Europe throughout our | | | | are abroad and try to keep yourself in limits. |