An experience we will never forget thats for sure. Set the GPS for Centre and off we went. I counted 22 overhead passes and we were still 12kms to go.
Pressure points at tunnels and intersections immediately jam but the French are good drivers - polite but firm...just inch their way forward and soon as through..off at full speed. All the bikes weave to the front all the time, only 1mm between wing mirrors is all you need. We even had a bus driver nod and turn his front wheel so we could get through to the front. Amazing. Its awesome, beautiful, old, frantic and just Paris. Rode through Place de la Concorde (no lanes, just mayhem) but decided the Champs Elysees was probably just stupidity - it was jammed so just enjoyed the Louvre and wandering about the Tuileries gardens...parked in the wrong carpark and caused a commotion which ended with words we recognised like 'stupide and Anglais' but thats another story involving a parking ticket, cc tv cameras and being marched to the office under the Louvre to be fined only to be let off with the words above. Every day an adventure. There are times we clarify we are from Nouvelle Zelande and times we leave them thinking we are English. It works well.Headed out again about 6.30pm north to my cousins beautiful French home in the country side.
Riding along the Boulevards and avenues of Paris:
Sounds like there are a few blank pages in the story of your trip that we are looking forward to you filling in when you get home! :D
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