Paris has a reputation for being a city of love and a bicycle mecca. Who knows where either reputation came from because frankly Paris is 24 hours of car traffic, with few bicycles to be seen.

I had visions of beautiful Parisians in flowing fashions, bicycling down boulevards, casually calling ‘Bonjour’ to each other on their way to the morning market.

Where is that Paris? It’s sure not the one I located on the map of France and flew to.

The Paris I landed in, is a honking, steaming bog of traffic and I wouldn’t ride through it if you paid me,