Charles de Gaulle experience

As promised in previous post this one will be dedicated to one perfect day, which I spent in Paris airport Charles de Gaulle. 11 hours is enough time to get to know the airport well and to observe few things, which usually stay closed to the people, who just rush for the connection flight. So:

• I spent most of the time at terminal 2B, from which I was flying to Prague and where most of the flights are from or to EU destinations. It is small terminal with around 15 gates, several shops, two restaurants and around 20 seats... There were just three places with chairs, where tired and bored passengers could sit down and relax for a while. I realized it while looking for some place, where to sit down and write few thoughts about my journey home - and the very first idea, which came to my mind was that I have to sit at floor in front of the Swiss airlanes VIP lounge (they have carpet there)...
• Second surprise was the organization of the check-in, passport control and boarding. I have never seen airport terminal (it doesn't mean, that I saw many...), where you first go through passport control and then you check in the lugage and right next to it you have the boarding gates. Which actually makes a life of passengers complicated, because there are just too many numbers - and it took me a while to realize, that some of them are the number of gates and some of them are numbers of check-in counters.
• SLOVAKIA IS IN EU!!! - If I didn't want to spend the whole day at terminal 2B (which as I mentioned is quite small and there is nothing to do), I had to get out through passport control. There are busses, which are connecting all 6 terminal halls, but you can get there only with the flight ticket and as I was already at the 2B terminal, I couldn't use them. So I tried to talk to passport officiers, that I just want to see the airport and that I didn't fill any documents in the airplane from Caracas. But it was totally useless - I just gave the passport to the officier, he saw the slovak symbol on it, looked quickly inside and let me go without a word... That was a very good feeling, knowing that he is aware, that Slovakia is in EU and that he should not be doing any problems...
• WINTER IS HERE :) :) :) - When I got through passport control, first I was just wandering around other terminals and then I have decided to go to the CDG railway station, to see, how much is the ticket to Paris and how long does it take. OF course I didn't understand nothing in French, and I didn't have any EUROs with me, so it was more curiosity, than real interest. But when I got to the station, I realized, that I can go to the platform, which is outsie, which means, that there is not A/C or heating, which means, that there should be a cold air, which means, that I can finally feel the Winter... And it was like that - when I got to the platform, I felt the cold air on my face and when I was breathing out, the steam was coming out of my mouth. I looked as a small child, which got new toy - Holywood smile #32, wide open eyes... Not much is necessary for man's happiness.
• I went to the railway station also because of the another reason - I wanted to see the famous TGV trains. And I had the opportunity to see one train coming and leaving the station. Well - I don't know. The shape of the train reminded me another famous train (famous especially in Czech Republic). The only difference was, that the TGV train (comparing to Pendolinos I saw in Prague) was quite old and incredible dirty. I know, that it is much faster then Pendolinos (in case they are moving), but the first impression was, that it is just another train, which probably is bit faster, when it gets out of the station.