Un Jour a Paris

To Paris via Eurostar for a Eurocopter press briefing. Tube map proclaims step-free access at Waterloo, London Bridge and St Pancras and so it is, but to achieve that you have to leave the station as well as the Jubilee Line at LB. Then a 2-300 metre push via Guys Hosp entrance to lift down to Northern Line platforms. As a result your one-tube-journey ticket is rendered invalid, requiring much fluttering of eyelashes to gain access. Was I the first wheelchair user to do this? Is a concession not already in place?

Eurostar brilliant as always. Paris less so as always. Tres élegant hotel (Du Louvre) with large room but no thought given to how to one might use shower. Sink taps at eye-level so unable to distinguish chaud from froid. Next morning, outraged to discover five steps down to breakfast brasserie; only alternative to go outside (it was raining) and round the block. Finally succumbed to indignity of being lifted down (and back up) in the chair. V bad news.