L'Avenue Verte

We took the route from the BBC guy recently (the via Gisors option). It's significantly longer than the Donald Hirsch route. My understanding is that this route (approximately) will be the official Avenue Verte route in 2012. Great route except going into Paris! Absolute nightmare, the Seine towpath just stops due to construction and the Canal St Denis, to put it bluntly, smells like shit and piss, has multiple construction sites along the way and is full of dead rats. We gave up and went in on the road.

As for the person who was asking about pace, we started just outside London on Friday, got the ferry to newhaven Saturday morning, half day cycling to Forges Les Eaux, Sunday we cycled to the national park vexin via Gisors (amazing ride! best day by far), Monday we finished into Paris.

We'll probably get to paris on the monday morning I expect. I hope so, as we only have a place to stay booked for the monday!