Our wee adventure has us taking up a kind offer from friends to visit them in Brussels. After checking out the cost of doing the journey by train around 400 euros we decided to go for the bus option at a fraction of the cost. Pauline had,in the past, used the 'Flixbus' service from Tours to Paris and found it comfortable and inexpensive (8.99e).
So yesterday morning we headed along the road from the train station in Tours to where you pick up the bus only to be informed that the bus we were taking was not a branded 'Flixbus' but another company's bus. What this meant was less leg room and no WIFI facilities. As it happened it proved comfortable enough and we arrived at the bus station (read bunker) in Bercy in Paris in good time to grab lunch at a nearby restaurant before catching our next bus to Brussels (18.99e) ,this time an actual 'Flixbus', so we had the leg room but unfortunately a non functioning WIFI and phone charger! Ah well you can't have everything, although we did have a mother with a very small child immediately behind us who was pretty distraught,sadly, for most of the journey. We consoled ourselves by thinking being on a train would not have been any different although a lot more expensive!
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