After cleaning up Xavier flat, we started our 1st day ride early at 8am, but only to the train station of Paris Est as advised by Xavier as it is not easy to start the ride from Paris city itself. So we boarded the train to a small town called Lagny Thorigny for 5.15 euro with the bikes free. The SCNF double decker train is very modern and comfortable and soon i found out how efficient the scedule is as i was left behind the platform when the automatic door shut with Ivan/Annie inside. We met up again after half an hour at Lagny station, but we had to carry our bikes up the escalator. We saw many fast cyclists on the road, most probably today is Sunday. Young and old ,cycling is really popular here. Today terrain nostly flats with minor rolling hills on D10 with trees on both sides of the road while D231 was quite open and nore traffics to bear. We spotted a nice campsite near a lake where some locals also set up their tents fishing; but we wanted to buy some camp foods in town but were disappointed as sunday all shops were closed. So we went back to the campsite to set up our tents at almost 5pm to end the day . The giant mosquitos had a field day .
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