From Paris to Hatfield, England

Checked out of my hotel in the AM, took the Eurostar train to London — under the English Channel. From London, I took a cab, and then a train, to Hatfield (half an hour north), and checked into the Jarvis Hotel in time for dinner. In the States, we might have called the Jarvis a “motor inn” (it was low and sprawling), but with its brick exterior, 40s deco motif, bar, and dining room, it aspired to more than that. Little did I know that I’d be there for a month.