Booking tickets on the SCNF site you have the option of printing them yourself, much handier than wrestling with a credit card at the station. But all I had to hand was bright green paper. So what’s the odds: on the way down to Avignon no problems – although the guard couldn’t find the picture page in my passport.
On the way back I get a lecture about how these are only supposed to be printed on white paper. I refrained from asking him where that was written …
This was my first-class splashout – a whole extra 10 euros, but really, for larger seats, it wasn’t worth even that small supplement – snooty people (had a mobile phone row), and no extras like free tea or coffee. I’ll be going second class next time.
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