Leaving Paris

We left early ish at 8:30 to catch the lights on Pont de Sully. There is a one way system around Notre Dame and as a pleasure boat we are only allowed along one particular route and that is single direction with downstream boats getting a green light between 8:35 and 8:50. Our book recommended we go early to avoid the worst of the traffic, we weren’t worried about that as there really isn’t that much traffic at the moment but it was due to get seriously hot so the sooner we arrived and could hide inside the better.
Well seeing all the bridges, must be one every 300m or so and the various sights from the boat was something. Due to the meanders although we travelled 45km we were only 15km from Paris when we decided to stop, we chose Rueil-Malmaison as there was a pontoon in the shade and the temp was rising. From here we took a short stroll to the Impressionists Park. Here we also saw one the boats that we had seen in St Dizier back when we were traveling along the Marne.Read more