Back to home and on to the UK

There was an option to go down to the nearby beach and port area on Sunday morning. Having been there 3 times, we weren't too bothered about a fourth trip, so we stayed on the terrace by the bar and John had a swim while Pat caught up with the blogs.
At 1130, the bus returned and it was apéro time!  After lunch, we set off in the bus for home making good time and arriving  in the village at 1815. We had a little time to empty cases, put the washing on and start packing before we went round to our friends Jill and Terry to eat.
In the morning, we finished off the packing and were dropped off at the station by Jill and Terry in time for our train to Lyon, from where we would catch a non stop train to Ashford.
We had about 90 minutes to kill, so wandered towards the river


Les Halles de Lyon. We were here a few years ago when we came to the Fête des Lumiéres (festival of lights).  Les Halles is named after the chef Paul Bocuse who has a number of restaurants in Lyon.
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We had checked for news of our train when we arrived in Lyon, but it was too early. When we returned, we found that the train was cancelled.  We were directed to a ticket office where they were shoeing us away to a train which was about to depart. We got on it, not knowing where it was going, but hoped that it was in the right direction.  We had departed before we knew that we were on our way to Lille, where we can connect with the usual sort of EuroStar.
So now we are speeding through the French countryside hoping that we will get to Margate tonight!  The ticket inspector assures us that Lille know that there are people on the train who will be wanting to get on a EuroStar that they are one booked on. 
Postscript:
All was well!  We arrived at Lille and rushed onto the platform to connect with a EuroStar from Brussels to London. We had just sat down when the announcement 'if you want to get off at Ashford, get off this train' was made. We then returned to the terminal and waited for about an hour for the next EuroStar which stopped a Ashford at the time we should have been there anyway (it was I fact a special which they had brought from Paris to get us home). We made our connection to Margate and arrived at the time we should have done, had we got onto the EuroStar at Lyon. 
We leared that the EuroStar service that we should have boarded had a technical fault and ran from Marseille to Lille with out stopping at either Avignon or Lyon. They feared that if they stopped, they wouldn't be able to start again! As we have found before, when something goes wrong, the French system has a good recovery procedure.