DAY 13 - PARIS TO JUVISY

Apart from the first few kilometres which took us out of Paris, this was not the most interesting day's walk. 

Lovers' padlocks were for a long time a feature on some of Paris's bridges. The bridges were becoming unstable because of the weight, and the padlocks were removed.  People are now placing them wherever there's an available railing.

 We started where we left off before our rest day, just outside Notre Dame. Our delightful older daughter joined us for the first few kilometres. Our route out of Paris went across the Île Saint Louis, up towards the Bastille, and out to the Bois de Vincennes via the Coulée Verte, a raised garden walkway above the traffic.

With our delightful older daughter on the Coulee Verte

Striding out along the Coulee Verte

  

We had our lunch in the Bois de Vincennes looking out at the lake, then went on without our delightful older daughter. We worked our way through Charenton, crossed the Marne by a footbridge just before it joined the Seine, and found a footpath that followed the Seine southwards for several kilometres. 

A rest stop in the Bois de Vincennes

For the rest of the day we just followed the river through the south-eastern suburbs, occasionally diverging slightly when the GR2 found a hill it thought we'd like to climb, or to find a bar for our afternoon hot chocolate/toilet break.

Walking south along the Seine towards Juvisy

 

Day:  13
Distance:  29.74km
Walking time:  5hrs 34mins
Elevation gain:  419 metres
Cumulative distance:  310.23 km