As mentioned before Claire and I did two of the Fat Tyres bike tours of Paris. We cannot recommend these English language tours highly enough. At around 24 Euro (we got a discount on the night tour, for doing the day tour...), and 4 hours each, they are great value and a highlight of our Paris visit. The same company also runs them in Barcelona and Berlin.
The brother questioned in a previous post if I meant bicycle tour when I said bike. Yes, indeedy. They are really comfortable (best seat!!), have great gears (3), and Paris in the city centre is delightfully flat. The tour offers some thrills (no spills!) apart from the glorious scenery too- as with a group of 20 bikes you get away with taking over lanes of traffic etc.
Here is proof I got on the bike...I am in front of a Paris peace memorial (the posts say Peace in most major World languages)...looking inspired as a looked back at Napolean's tomb (the speccy building shown) which looked glorious on this beautiful autumn sunny day. We also have a picture of Claire on the night tour. THis is ALL the safety equipment we had. NO bike lights or helmets...just the reflective vest! To be honest my bike riding in Amsterdam was more dangerous.
oh my goodness
it is still all so exciting to me
I could do it again now - even though I have drunk qute a large amount of gin and am hiding
that DOG!
Posted by: claire | October 28, 2006 at 08:19
This tour looks awesome. Perhaps I could start similar tours around Fremantle - not quite the same somehow!! Everything is postcard stuff and you were there
Posted by: Christine | November 03, 2006 at 12:44