Today was the final leg home. We caught a TGV to Paris then caught the Eurostar back to London. The journey was largely uneventful mostly through pastoral country though there were the Vosges in the background between Basel and Strasbourg and we had to pass through them before joining the high speed line to Paris.
Getting on to Eurostar in Paris was the worst part of the journey as we had to pass through passport control for the only time on the journey and through airport style security. The french customs were somewhat unhappy about a polished ammonite we had bought from a little stall in Innsbruck, but in the end let it pass.
I feel the border controls on Eurostar are somewhat ott given that we have passed through borders between European countries with a minimum of formalities - including in and out of Switzerland which is not an EU member. I am not convinced it will deter terrorists - which is probably the excuse given. After all the July 2005 bombings in London were carried out by British Citizens. If other EU countries can manage with more relaxed border controls, why not the UK?
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