Ten streets you MUST cycle down in Paris
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
From bustling boulevards to Sunday promenades, grab a Vélib bike and discover Paris on two wheels.
Our guests for this week are two entrepreneurs who know Paris very well indeed: Paul and Christian from Bike About Tours. They also run a funky coffee shop in the Marais, just off the river Seine, called Le Peloton Cafe.
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| 0:00.0 | Many say that the best way to see Paris is by bicycle. |
| 0:03.8 | And two guys that I think would back that up are Paul and Christian from Bike About Tours in Paris. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to the show, guys. |
| 0:10.7 | Thanks a lot. |
| 0:11.2 | Hey man, it's good to see again. It's been a while. |
| 0:12.9 | Yeah, it's been a while. I've been in the cafe before, but it's great that you agreed to come on the radio show. |
| 0:17.7 | You're welcome. |
| 0:18.4 | Yeah, it's Great to be here. Is that a New Zealand accent there? It is indeed. Yeah, yeah. Whereabouts are you from? I grew up in Wellington. Right. |
| 0:24.7 | Yeah. But been here for 16 years, so you've been here for French. So you probably know |
| 0:28.9 | the Paris streets really well. Pretty well, I can say. Yeah. And what about you, Christian? |
| 0:32.9 | Yeah, well I've been in Paris 15 years. I've been running bike about tours with Paul for 12 years. |
| 0:40.3 | We've covered pretty much the whole city on bikes. |
| 0:43.3 | Excellent. |
| 0:44.3 | We should know it quite well. |
| 0:45.3 | The two perfect guys, perhaps to give me the 10 best streets to cycle down to really experience Paris. |
| 0:52.3 | Here for Tower with Oliver G. |
| 0:57.2 | But more on that in a second, these two guys also run Le Peloton Cafe, which you may have |
| 1:03.0 | visited in the third. |
| 1:04.0 | We're in third, fourth, Arindicamot. |
| 1:06.0 | Fourth, which is where we are today. |
| 1:07.5 | A bit of a different show here. We're in the actual cafe. |
| 1:16.6 | So I hope you guys don't mind if I do throw in the occasional coffee shop slash bike pump. |
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