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Cycling Trip to Paris 2003

Adam, Ade, Jake, John, Steve and me cycled from Oxford to Paris (9-11 April), meeting a possee of girls with champagne under the Eiffel Tower on our arrival. Three days of hard riding covering around 240 miles with stops on the overnight Portsmouth-Le Havre ferry and in picturesque Les Andelys in Anglophile Terry's Hotel de Paris.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other highlights included mountains of chips, fries and frites; riding through hail, sleet and snow; some infamous yellow pantaloons; some super-hairpin hills (up and down!); a daredevil red-light-jumping convoy through the evening traffic of central Paris; and Adam's insistence on braving the traffic all the way round the Arc de Triomphe (nutter!).

 

Stats

Day Leg Distance Door-to-door Cycling time
1 Oxford - Portsmouth 142km 13hrs unknown
2 Le Havre - Les Andelys 134km 12hrs unknown
3 Les Andelys - Paris 97km 7hrs unknown
Total   373km 32hrs unknown

  John Nick Adrian Steve Adam Jake
Punctures 0 0 0 1 0 0
Breakdowns 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sick notes 0 0 2 0 0 0
Shopping trips 0 0 1 0 0 0