Day 9: Is that the Eiffel Tower? Oh wait, it's a pylon

After spending the night in a deserted hotel and restaurant in which we had to leave down the fire escape (apparently Sundays are still Sundays over here), we forced our boots back on and headed straight for the bakery, naturally.

We struggled to find motivation even though we were so close to Paris, as we walked through town after town, we began to feel suspiciously as if we were in the outskirts of London.

We played the a-z game for far too long, talked about first dates, plastic surgery and the male specimen- as you can see, we're nearing the end of our walk- and reminisced about all of the preparation, events and advice we got in the 'run up' to our walk.

By the last few miles, we were seriously lacking in energy and as we sat down to have a rest, decided that the obvious answer was to take caffeine tablets, energy gels and a whole tube of energy tablets all at once (pictures on request only).

We carried on, and the allusive McDonald's that we seemed to have been chasing for the whole walk appeared out of nowhere, but due to the large amounts of energy products we had previously consumed, we all felt a bit sick and only Leanne could manage a milkshake (which turned out to be rather tiny)

We finally arrived in Purley Way.. I mean, Herblay, and discovered that our hotel is literally a big yellow storage facility- for people! However, it's actually rather cosy and we don't agree with the terrible reviews on trip advisor- we're just glad we got to see the closing ceremony, albeit, in French, meaning that we missed Boris dancing.

We now have just one day of walking ahead of us and have covered 168miles leaving us just 12miles to go!

We can't wait to see the Eiffel Tower, put on dresses, do our hair and make up and to feel like real women again! Not to mention drinking champagne, eating good food and celebrating!!

See you all soon! Emily, Jenny and Leanne x