Urban travel. A hot topic… Antoni "Dante" Villoni is maybe taking this a little too seriously!
The streets of Paris are well known to all, even perhaps the underground Catacombs, which stretch for 1.5km, but few are aware that there are nearly 300km of tunnels several metres below the 'City of Light.'
Antoni gives us a guided tour, a descent deep down into the dark depths of the capital city, or to hell…
I went under there once. We took the metro south of town and walked down some railway tracks and then there was a hole in the ground under a bridge and next thing you know, you're under Paris. It was wild. We had a guide. Bones everywhere. Tons of art. Rooms where people party.
Commencal seem to love filming where it is totally forbidden to ride a bike when they shoot in France. First riding on a coastal path (GR34 in Killian Bron's tour de france) then with the catacombs ahah at least they did not bring an ebike down there!
We do not have much of those crack heads in EU. I never met in my entire live someone on crack/meth like you have there in Spain or around other cities I visited in European soil.
Wow, that is a cool place to ride. I saw a video of some guys exploring it once and I thought it would be cool to ride a bike in there, well now someone has done it.
Trails From the Crypt! And check out that metal thing hanging down from the ceiling in that one pic w/ the semi-berm...looks like victim material. Total metal balls on this one
Ok so a couple of things. Wow, I had no idea that the catacombs had become so vandalized. Yes some of it is genuine artwork, most of it though is just graffiti and a defacing of a mass burial chamber which is altogether rather sad. Do the long since dead care though? Who know's... Second, where did all of the skeletons go? I was looking for bones and skulls and such things appear to be largely absent from the catacombs. Have the catacombs been removed of human remains and transformed into nothing more than a druggy haven akin the drainage tunnels underneath Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) and presumably similar public infrastructure in other locations?
There's two different sections of the catacombs. There is a part that is full of bones, which is open to the public, and is very protected. It is all clear of graffiti. The rest of the catacombs are not open to the public, and are full of graffiti and other stuff, and are more just tunnels than actual catacombs. This was filmed in the latter area. www.thetravel.com/what-paris-caracombs-are-like
@kfccoleslaw: I find it a bit a ironic that the part open to the public is pristine and the part that is off-limits to the public is destroyed. What does that say about the general public? Thank you for that insight, very interesting!
@bbmbc: Annecy is a chic and bourgeoise city boring as hell and Lourdes, except the bike park, is a shithole for believers, its full of wheelchairs and souvenirs shops with plastic holy merchandizing made in China. Surroundings of Lourdes and Annecy are great, especially for mountain biking, but the cities suck.
@danstonQ: Lol! Parisian boastful words! Even if you are from toulouse... @bbmbc is right and the problem of Paris is not the city which is very beautiful but the people who live there. I was a Parisian for a long time, I'm happy to have changed region and mentality.
@bbmbc: So I've heard. Many a French have told me there is Paris and then the rest of France and they couldn't be more different. Again ironic, since the outside world thinks Paris is representative of France...bahahahaha.
@SuperHighBeam: No it wasn't my intent at all, but you know, sometimes... I really like to tickle "ignorant" people, including the ones living around me ;-) Come here whenever you want. I'll make you discover both spanish and french Pyrénées, spanish and french foods/moods, weeds, wines, landscapes/trails, etc.....like it or not, I don't think you're gonna hate it Cheers Bro!!!
@danstonQ: "Come here whenever you want. I'll make you discover both spanish and french Pyrénées, spanish and french foods/moods, weeds, wines, landscapes/trails, etc.....like it or not, I don't think you're gonna hate it Wink Cheers Bro!!!" That sounds a lot more intriguing than the tourist traps of Paris.
Surroundings of Lourdes and Annecy are great, especially for mountain biking, but the cities suck.
@bbmbc is right and the problem of Paris is not the city which is very beautiful but the people who live there. I was a Parisian for a long time, I'm happy to have changed region and mentality.
Work it out.
Come here whenever you want. I'll make you discover both spanish and french Pyrénées, spanish and french foods/moods, weeds, wines, landscapes/trails, etc.....like it or not, I don't think you're gonna hate it
Cheers Bro!!!
Cheers Bro!!!" That sounds a lot more intriguing than the tourist traps of Paris.