 Oh, Champs Elysees! Oh my God! Woo, these guys are crazy! There it is! On the trail, riding round and round about! Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Oli. We are attempting a new world record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. Click the subscribe button to follow our adventure around the world. See you later! Good morning world! Welcome back to the channel! It's day number 11! 11! On our round the world trip! We've spent the last couple of days in this little room, laying low, doing some editing, but it is time today to hit the road again. Bumblebee has been resting down there where we can keep an eye on her, covered by the Oxford rain cover, doing great. But today we are going to be taking on the streets of Paris. So let me show you where we're going to go. So far, we have managed to make our way across the ferry to Calais, up to Dunkirk, where we then went down through the heart of the French countryside, ending up in Compiègne, where we spent the last couple of days. Today, we are going to be taking the road south towards Paris, taking on the streets of Paris. We're going to head in from the northeast, straight through the centre, coming out the southwest, where we're going to be spending the night camping back in the French countryside. So it's going to be a day of massive contrasts from the countryside to the city to the countryside again. It's going to be a crazy day, so let's go! Good morning! Yeah, good morning from the road! The sun is shining and we are heading into Paris. 41 miles to go into Paris and we're already into this beautiful, forested countryside. And it's a great day for riding after a couple of days off. I was so looking forward to getting back on the bike and getting going. Hooray! Just getting in to the outskirts of Paris. I don't know if you guys can see, but up there in the distance, we can start to see the sprawl of the metropolis. The building is coming up on the horizon. We can see that the road is starting to get busier. Yeah, you have a lot of trucks coming. Oh yeah, this is the start of the chaos! The chaos of Paris! I heard a lot of bad things about Paris, about the traffic and stuff, so you know what? The only thing to do is for us to go right into the heart of Paris, take it head on and see how it is for real. Just stopping for a quick little coffee break before we head into the centre. Okay, we're under five miles now. From the centre of Paris, we have routed ourselves actually to the Arc de Triomphe, to that roundabout right in the middle. And then we want to drive the Champs-Élysées and we want to go to the Eiffel Tower, all in a big whirlwind motorcycle tour. Yes, and you can see here quite good, like the traffic is going crazy, cars coming from the right and from the left. Yeah, but we're fine, we're navigating, we're getting in. Yes. And everything seems to be flowing reasonably well. I expected worse. Yeah. Very cool. Yeah, look at that. A café in Paris. And look at this beautiful tree-lined avenue with these giant buildings. This is exactly what I expected. From the streets of Paris, look at this. Wow, we've got just over a mile until the Arc de Triomphe. Beautiful, beautiful. I love the architecture here around. Yeah, it's really charming here, it's really charming. Very charming. Oh, this is the Paris-Farique and now we're coming into the very, very centre. Here we go. Whee! And do you know what road we're heading down now? Oh, Champs-Élysées. Oh, Champs-Élysées. I just wanted to come down that road so that I could sing this song. Nice, look at this. So here it is, the quintessential site of Paris. The Arc de Triomphe started building in 1806 and it wasn't completed until the 1830s. It was commissioned by Napoleon and it was inspired by, I think it's called, the Titus Arch in Rome. And look at it, it's crazy. And it's a beautiful arch. A huge, beautiful arch. That is one hell of a doorway. It's 50 metres high and that is all the information I have for you today about the Arc de Triomphe. For more information, please look up the Cipiria. Oh, my God, these guys are crazy. There it is, Arc de Triomphe, riding round the roundabout. Nice. Amazing. Look at that. And I've never been to Paris before. And now here we are, riding through the very centre, going round the roundabout. Now I just need to find the right exit because there are so many exits here. I think it is not this one, this one. Yep, that's it. Wow, wasn't that a crazy roundabout, hey? Oh, my God. And now after our whirlwind tour of the Arc de Triomphe, we are heading to France's most famous landmark. Yep, you guessed it. We've now routed to the Eiffel Tower. And it's only about a mile away from the Arc de Triomphe, so we are going to roll on through to the Tour Eiffel. Look, there's the Eiffel Tower. Woo! Whoa, that was sprung up on me. Oh, my God. Well, I'm going to... Oh, my God, these scooters, these scooters are crazy. Honestly, we have to be more careful of the scooters than we do with the cars. It's true, and he is just going, and he is going as well. Everyone is just going for it, hey? Here we go. Look at that. Wow, this is my first time seeing it in person. That's incredible. There it is, the Eiffel Tower. 300 meters tall. Oh, look, we can drive all the way down here. Oh, my God. That is crazy. Oh, he is like... This truck man, he's just doing whatever he wants. He is doing whatever he wants. Look at that. Oh, my God, look at this. This is crazy. Wow. Nice, look at that. Beautiful. Oh, my God. Now, I can't remember when this was built, but it's built out of steel, must absolutely weigh a ton. It was actually the tallest building from when it was built. I think it was 1890, 1889, and it was the tallest building until 1930, when I think it was beaten by New York. But there's a lot of traffic. I think we're going to have to end our world-win tour of central Paris, and I think we're going to have to start making our way out because we can't really stop anyway here, and the traffic is crazy. Coming back onto the periphery, and also, this is now the official start of the Paris Dakar leg of our trip. So that was kind of one of the reasons why we sort of came into the center of Paris, other than the fact I've never been to Paris, so I really wanted to see it. Yeah, and Bumblebee wanted to see it as well, so. Yeah, Bumblebee had never been to Paris. I had never been to Paris. So in homage to the Paris Dakar, we're starting here in Paris, and we are on our way now to Dakar. Dakar, we are coming. So I've actually been on the periphery of Paris where we are now once before, but it was actually by accident. I was heading to a friend's place in Tour in the center of France. I took a wrong turn out of Calais, and I thought, oh yeah, it'll probably be okay. I'll just carry on, I'll just carry on. And yeah, I ended up here in Paris, and I had to go around the periphery, and then take one of the exits off and go down to Tour. So that's as close as I ever got to the center of Paris by accident. So now we're heading back out. Goodbye Paris. Goodbye Paris. It's been really, really brief, but it was really nice to see these amazing famous monuments. Yeah, absolutely. It was really, really moving actually. It was absolutely crazy. Yeah, that's quite a tour. Oh man, that's quite a tour. I don't think many people would be like, oh, let's drive into the very center of Paris, but I'm glad we did. Oh, I'm missing the countryside already. Don't worry, we're heading back out now. We will be in the countryside in no time. We are back in the countryside, away from the city. We have now traveled today 115 miles, and we have 17 miles to go until our stop for the night. And we're back in the beautiful, beautiful open fields and the tree-lined countryside roads just to the southwest of Paris. But yeah, tonight we have found a campsite, which we found on Park for Nights. And this campsite is basically pay what you want. Yeah, you pretty much just rock up there. It's like some farmers who have like a field with a couple of basic facilities. And yeah, you just pay as much as you feel when you're there. But it should be a pretty cheap night after spending the last couple of days in a hotel, which wasn't an expensive hotel, but for our budget, which is a tiny budget, anything that's not camping is pretty much over budget. Okay, it looks like we're just coming up to our campsite for the night. And it's in a beautiful rural countryside setting just fields, fields, fields, fields, fields, all around in the very small little hamlet of Sécuré. So we just have to look out for the camping sign. Nice. Wow. I think, ah, he's there. Okay. Cool. Very cool. Oh, this beautiful little area. Yeah. Cool. Should we just go here? Just here. Yeah. It's fine. Okay. Yeah. Perfect. It's full of these places. Just listen to that. Yeah. The owner tells us the donkey is 40 years old. We can actually pitch the tent right next to Bumblebee tonight. We can sleep right next to Bumblebee. Yes. Oh. So we're just having a picnic at the moment with some pastries and some cheese. And just, yeah, obviously, um, forget, of course. And the croissants. Of course. Oli has been driving the whole day. Look how dead he is. So I will set up the tent now for us, make everything nice and cozy. 15 minutes. Good evening. Snuggled up cozy and nice and close where we can keep an eye on her. Yes. We managed to drive 148 miles today, which considering we went right through the centre of Paris, I think that is pretty good going. It wasn't too hectic in the city centre, actually. No. No. Not as bad as we were expecting. Yeah. Exactly. I mean, for me, it was quite scary when we drove through the roundabout. Oh my God. Yeah. That roundabout with no lanes, just traffic going absolutely everywhere. It was pretty insane. But, you know, I was just, I was just like getting in there and I was just kind of like, you know, whoa, whoa, whoa, avoiding everything. And it was fine in the end. It was fine at the end, but I think as a pillion is like, you don't have anything under control, you know? You are just looking right and left and you're seeing scooters coming, cars coming and you're like, oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Luckily everyone avoided everyone. Yes. And we can all go home happy. Yes. Yes. So that's it for today from us. We hope you enjoyed the episode. Please subscribe to our channel. 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