Having clocked up a fair few overseas train journeys since 1987, I undertook my first for two years last weekend.

Arriving by Eurostar, it was a short walk from Paris Gare du Nord to Gard de L’est before taking the slick SNCF train the one-hour forty minutes to Nancy in Lorraine.

I will blog some more about the lovely city soon, but in the meantime here are the train station facades.