London to Paris

[tazmania_1981]

Hi guys

as few of you are aware we will be cycling to Paris from London on 25th of June

if anybody would like to join please book your places as fallows

P AND O FERRIES Dover - Calais Wed 25 Jun 2014 20:15 ( cost :£19.50)

RETURN:

27TH JUN 2014 EUROSTAR PARIS NORD TRAIN 9063 21.13 TO LONDON ST-PANCRASS ( £ 50)

Seems like we will have to book our bikes in as well at additional cost of £30.

if you would like to get in touch with me please feel free to pm me.

i am sure there will be some of you who has already done this if anybody can give some tips about where to sleep which route to take or if you have a gpx file for navigation that would be great

Thanks


We are planing to leave early in the morning on 25th and reach Dover - ferry to Calais than find a place around there to sleep.

26th start after breakfast cycle around 80 miles and find a hostel, man fuel and sleep
27th cycle to Paris another 80 -85 miles
once we get to Paris we are not spending time in Paris apart from a nice meal
we will be catching the Euro-star in the night and back to London.

[Dombo]

I did it in 2010 with these people: http://www.londres-paris.com/ staying in Calais, Amiens and some Pullman gaff near that big pylon in the middle of Paris. We started from Imber Court near Oxshott. Toughest bit was the climb up to Capel-le-Ferne outside Dover.
Draw a line on the map and take the quietest roads nearest to the line, plot on ridewithgps and voila.
Best bits on our ride were getting cheered through villages by the locals and riding into Paris tucked in behind Stephen Roche's wheel. Now THAT guy can hold a line in a bunch.

[tazmania_1981]

thanks for sharing ur experience

we have one of them garmin gps cycling computers ansdlooks like there is few gpx files avaliable online from cycling forums
i think the route we will do is same as yours apart from staying in paris we want to headback right away.

i will update you all

thanks

[Phil H]

[quote="tazmania_1981"]we have one of them garmin gps cycling computers ansdlooks like there is few gpx files avaliable online from cycling forums

[simon Lythgoe]

Hi

We did this last year and followed this route:
http://www.donaldhirsch.com/dieppeparis.html

We're doing it again at the end of this month and the only section we're changing is the forest track part which leads into Paris from Versailles as it's way too complicated - We'll just follow the Siene in (sheet 7 of the printable pdf from his website).

The Avenue Verte at 05.00 in the morning is awesome!

[Lee on the Condor]

Hi Taz,

I did the http://www.donaldhirsch.com/dieppeparis.html route too.
London > New Haven > Dieppe > Neufchâtel-en-Bray > Paris
There and back in 4 1/2 days
(we cheated on the outskirts of Paris by catching a train avoiding the suburbs, probably skipped 20k of urban)

£35 for return crossing - I tried to book but had no space, read somewhere that due to the size of there will always be space for a cyclist

Fond memories.

If I did it again I'd take the late ferry from New Haven to arrive at Dieppe 0500. The ferry has big airline type seats to catch some zzzzzzzs.

[tazmania_1981]

done and dusted guys thanks to everyone for help and advice

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