Best Use of a Treadmill I've Ever Seen

[ChrisGreaves]

Will you be in Paris on Monday the 29th? I'll be passing through...

Yes, Hans, I'll be in Paris on the 29th.

I'll be passing out

I check out of my hotel in the 12th arrondisement (Daumesnil/Dugommier Metro) and take line (6) to Denfert-Rocherau, then the RER to CDG-2 for terminal 3, flying Air-Transat back to Toronto at, I think, 5pm, so I ought to be through the wossit by, I think 3pm.

Any of that any good?

FWIW I'll be the aged guy, slightly more overweight than usual, sore feet, and my possessions in a bright orange shoulder-bag, but with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Translinean, and a rare (for Paris) but useful knack of dissuading beggars that haunt the trains.

[ChrisGreaves]

That seems eminently suitable for Chris - just load up the treadmill with custard tarts.

Hey!
At my age, any sort of tart is appreciated, custardy or not
(signed) of tarts

[ChrisGreaves]

I'll be passing through France from Le Havre to Montpellier on the 29th...

Keep it up, Leif. As long as it's not about T____M___s!

[HansV]

I have to catch a train at Bercy at 1 PM - only one stop from Dugommier on the #6 Metro line, but you'll probably be too busy preparing for your return flight.

[Leif]

But you'll bypass Paris, I presume...

Mais oui

[Leif]

FWIW I'll be the aged guy, slightly more overweight than usual, sore feet, and my possessions in a bright orange shoulder-bag, but with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Translinean, and a rare (for Paris) but useful knack of dissuading beggars that haunt the trains.

This is but one of the reasons I'll be bypassing Paris...

[ChrisGreaves]

This is but one of the reasons I'll be bypassing Paris...

[ChrisGreaves]

Will you be in Paris on Monday the 29th? I'll be passing through...

(I'm Trying to stay on-track here ... )

Well, Hans, if you are thinking of traveling near my quartier I think you'll have plenty of time ...
http://chrisgreaves.com/Bercy/GareDeBercy.htm

P.S. A couple more photos:
http://chrisgreaves.com/Bercy/GareDeBercy2.htm

P.P.S. OK. I'm off to Bois de Vincennes to see if all the trees have been chopped down ...

[HansV]

Yep, thanks! No worries:

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[Leif]

Well, Hans, if you are thinking of traveling near my quartier I think you'll have plenty of time ...
http://chrisgreaves.com/Bercy/GareDeBercy.htm
...
P.P.S. OK. I'm off to Bois de Vincennes to see if all the trees have been chopped down ...

Instead of visiting a gare with only a couple of passengers, you could have visited an entire abandoned railway in the centre of Paris.

[ChrisGreaves]

... you could have visited an entire abandoned railway in the centre of Paris.

If this is the one I'm thinking of, it ran along where I worked in 1980, near Courcelles/Place de Clichy, NW part of the city.
I recall walking by a trenched railway but not seeing any trains on it.
Quite unlike the trench that runs along Rue de Rome out of Gare St Lazare.
I had lunch at Pont Cardinet not two weeks ago (sniff!)
The only day it rained in two weeks, and then only for two hours.

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Check out the rain bouncing off the footpath on the far side of the street.
Lucky for me I was trapped inside a Brasserie! (note to Rudi: Not what you think it is!)

[Rudi]

Thanks for clearing that up Chris

[Leif]

Check out the rain bouncing off the footpath on the far side of the street.

Huh! - call that rain? I was two hours from Major flash flooding in France but fortunately got warned just in time.

[ChrisGreaves]

Huh! - call that rain? I was two hours from ...

Oh be fair, Leif.
The rain began again the day I left; even the breakfast waitress was sad.
I said "It's my last day and look, it's raining" and she said (pardon my lousy writing) "meme, le ciel is not content" which I interpreted to mean that even the heavens were weeping.

I bring sunshine wherever I go, and when I leave the waiters and the waitresses and the heavens themselves open up.

Montpellier was probably just ticked off because the Translinean doesn't go that far, so I didn't visit. If they'd just work a bit harder to get themselves added to zone 5 of the Navigo Card we would all be happier!

[HansV]

Including Montpellier in the Transilien network would stretch the definition of Île-de-France a bit...