Last weekend, I was fortunate enough to take a trip to Paris with one of my friends, Sia. We found a deal on a voucher website for three nights in a hotel in Nanterre, about 20 minutes outside central Paris on the RER, with Eurostar travel included, so we snapped it off and on Friday morning, off we went.

After a disturbingly easy journey to Paris, we headed to our hotel (with the rather ominous addition to the ‘amenities’ list on the website: ‘interior corridors’, but surprisingly OK) to dump our belongings and headed off to join a Seine cruise. The weather was – and I apologise for this in advance – inSeine, and in that one 90 minute trip we encountered bright sunshine, hail and a lightning storm. We even saw hail hit the Eiffel Tower. I wish I’d got a picture of that but I’m no photographer…