london a stream of frustrated eurostar passengers turned up at stations in london and paris on monday desperate for information on how to get home for christmas philippe de vandiere due to have travelled on sunday discovered all flights home to paris were booked until thursday when oneway prices trebled to about 500 the 25yearold broker has suffered disruption with eurostar in the past but said this is the worst disruption and just before xmas too sonia van waelam a 49yearold woman from brussels was stranded at londons st pancras international station having been due to return home on sunday and be back at work at the interior ministry on monday we had a good time in london but now ive had enough of it she said i hope i will be home for christmas otherwise i will have to swim across the channel trains have been suspended over the past three days after they were unable to cope with extreme winter weather eurostar said it hoped a partial service would resume on tuesday french president nicolas sarkozy summoned the head of the french train authority to the elysee palace on monday and ordered him to get the eurostar moving again after the threeday suspension of the crosschannel train servicesarkozy called in the president of frances sncf train authority and told him to present measures to ensure that such incidents unacceptable for travelers do not recur monday was the first time top french officials have spoken about the fiasco