Day 100: A Quiet Little Village Called Paris

Date: Sunday 6th July
Staying: Camping Maison Lafitte - Paris, France.
Distance Travelled: 0 miles
Song of the day: Relax - Mika

There were only 2 targets for today. First involved somewhere to watch the formula 1, and the second was for Laurie to find a dress. This is Paris, both of those should be easy.....

Perhaps not!

We started on the Champs Elysees which, lets be fair, is a little more expensive than other areas of Paris. Thats OK though, cause we didn't actually find anything open anyway. Apparently Paris suffers from the same archaic Sunday trading law the London does. So there are thousands of people wandering around wondering why they can't buy anything.

The formula 1 wasn't exactly easy to organise either. We visited one of the handily placed tourist offices to ask for a sports bar. After the gentleman consulted the internet, he came back with 1 sports bar which was a long metro ride away. 1 sports bar in Paris, I couldn't quite believe that. Luck decided to shine on us though. Renault have their flagship store on the Champs Elysee, with a big screen and a restaurant upstairs, where we spent the afternoon watching the race.

After the race though, we discovered another problem. Apparently Paris doesn't open at all on a Sunday. We went wandering through a maze of streets in several shopping districts, only to find the same closed store fronts in each place. Laurie was devastated. SO being defeated, we headed back to the campsite.