Try a cycle tour of the city with Paris a velo - c'est sympa!

Tried and tested with initially reluctant friends who later admitted it was the best part of the holiday.

You see so much more and it's better for the environment so what's to lose?

Tours can be arranged in your own language and the tour guides are excellent.

www.parisvelosympa.com/

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Arrive in Paris and hire one of the city’s (carbon neutral!) self-service bicycles –Vélib’. Locate the cycle station at Gare du Nord and discover – quelle surprise! – they’re all taken.

No worries, there’s another station a short walk away on my road, rue Louis Blanc. But it’s permanently ‘hors service’... Carry on then to the Vélib station at Jaurès for a chat in the long queue before finally getting your hands on the ‘deux roues’.

Cycle along the pretty canal for a picnic at Parc de la Villette before heading back to Jaurés for a canalside drink at the MK2. Voilà!

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Little can beat floating down the Seine when your aching feet have had enough. Try Bateaux Mouches, which leave from the Pont d’Alma, and Bateaux Parisiens, which pick up from near the Eiffel Tower. Both are packed in summer, but they do give you the best possible view of the world's most handsome cityscape.

www.bateaux-mouches.fr/; www.bateauxparisiens.com/

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