D8 Sagy to Paris

D8 Sagy to paris
A superb run into the city starting with my first glimpse from Cergy - sky scrapers including La Defence visible beyond the lake

 Then a long run in around the bends of the Seine with impressive barges - this one caught my eye with the Chinese containers bringing more stuff into the heart of europe.

 Some lovely bridges which John Grimshaw would approve of.

 Before leaving behind (temporarily) rural France entering the city via Saint Denis which felt like Senegal with street vendors selling skewers of goat to an African beat on their sound systems and after a pretty non diverse French village scene there very few white people out in the banlieu!

 Very happy with my route in however see the traffic free cycle lane over my shoulder! Latched onto a young couple of cyclists who guided me in to the centre through horn sounding streets as the atmosphere built for the big match.

As you can see i lucked out finding a stool in a bar casserole where I watched the game in a convivial cosmopolitan atmosphere surrounded by delirious kids on the street all with my clumsily locked bike in sight chained up ouside.

Booking .com got me to my garret bedroom and that brings to a close legs 1 and 2 South coast and France to paris.