Meaux Transportation

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A very enjoyable way top go to Meaux is to go there biking; it is a bit long, but as the road and tracks follow a canal, there is no hill to climb up, all is flat!
The trip is 45 km long, so if you want to bike you need to be fit and prepared for a ride of 2 to 3 hours (or longer, but you want to visit Meaux?).
I biked to Meaux several times and came back by train and I think it is a good option; you can take the bikes in the train on this line.
I like to bike along the Canal de l’Ourq, enjoy the autumn colours (picture 1), stop here or there and look at the quiet waters of the canal (picture 2), arrive at small villages, wherepeople take their time for living. . . (picture 3).
I love the mornings on the canal (picture 4), and biking early, I arrive Meaux (sometimes I stop before!) before the great mass at the cathedral!
Arrival in Meaux (picture 5) is marked these concrete buildings on the banks of the canal.
Ah! I have a bike in my Parisian part of life, and you, as tourists may need to rent a bike if you want to bike along the canal; of course, Velib’ bikes cannot be used for that trip, and the best is to hire a bike at cyclo pouce, conveniently located at the end of Bassin de la Vilette, beginning of Canal de l’Ourq. I rented for my kids or visitors, for 11 Euros per day very good road bikes; they have other tariff offers for hours, week ends and even weeks or longer time.
« CycloPouce »
38 bis quai de la Marne
(angle rue des Ardennes)
75019 Paris.
Métro Ourcq.