Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Driving the Arc de Triomphe

Unfortunately, one of our friends left his camera bag in the back of the tour van on the day we went to Giverny, so we needed to pick it up from the tour office after picking up our car as we were leaving Paris.  We entered the address in the GPS and set off.  Soon we had the dreadful realization that we would need to drive the roundabout at the Arc de Triomphe! Now the Arc's roundabout consists of about 7 lanes of traffic.  I say "about" because there are no lines on the road at all and the whole thing seems like a giant free-for-all.  We managed to get through it with a lot of watching out for other cars and then we ended up on the Champs-Elysees! So it was quite a morning just trying to get out of Paris.

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