The Chunnel

If you can afford it a great way to get from London to Paris is by using the Chunnel. The Chunnel is a British nickname for the Channel Tunnel that Eurostar bullet trains ride through. While the cheapest youth ticket is a whopping $155 (yes dollars, not Euros) to say that you have traveled through the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world is pretty neat. At the tunnels lowest point it is actually 250 feet deep.

An article on CNN.com brings up a very interesting point: "as you zoom along at speeds up to 185 miles per hour, consider how long it took to link Britain and France. Since the days of Napoleon there had been talk about a tunnel under the English Channel, but it wasn't until 1986 that the two countries finally reached an agreement to build it together. Once the digging started, crews crept forward 100 feet a day until June 1991, when French and English workers broke through and shook hands midway across the Channel. Voila! Cheers! The tunnel was complete."

Considering the cheap cost of airfare on some European airlines the Eurostar fare for the Chunnel is pretty steep, but this is definitely one train ride to splurge on. If it makes you feel any better the European bullet train is far more fuel efficient and causes less pollution than flying!