Spectators along the Champs Elysees with French flags
French Olympic and Paralympic champions on a catwalk on the Champs Elysées with Paris 2024 staff dressed in their blue uniforms on the sides, lots of French flags
Dear tourists. Sorry, you can't visit the Champs Élysées today. Today, the avenue belongs to the French and their champions. #Paris2024 #LifeInParis #GamesEdition 🇨🇵🥇🥈🥉🇨🇵
On a métro escalator going up, several men seen from behind, one of them wearing a red jacket marked "Egypt" over sportswear.
I think I just ran into some Egyptians, one of them an athlete. As you do on the métro. #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
#Paris2024 #GameIsNotOver
The Paris 2024 balloon on the ground in the Tuileries Gardens
Remember the #Paris2024 cauldron/balloon? It's still there, waiting to be relit next week for the "return game", as Tony Estanguet called it at the Closing Ceremony. Don't forget: #GameIsNotOver!
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
Sign on a wall of the Paris métro indicating the peak hours during Olympic and Paralympic Games.
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
This sign in the métro is for us, not for the visitors, which is why it isn't pink.
#GameIsNotOvet#LifeInParis #GamesEdotion
This sign in the métro is for us, not for the visitors, which is why it isn't pink.
#GameIsNotOver
I'm back with #LifeInParis #GamesEdition because #GameIsNotOver - we're getting ready for the "return match".
Reserved lanes were reactivated and métro stations closed again as of today.
6 days to go!
2 signs for the same Paris public transport lines side by side but one of them is pink
2 signs for the same Paris public transport lines side by side but one of them is pink
#GameIsNotOver
You might wonder why these signs in thr métro seem to be redundant but in fact it's brilliant: everything in pink is for #Paris2024. So much easier to spot!
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
In good Parisian tradition, I'm leaving town for (part of) August, so #LifeInParis #GamesEdition is taking a break.
More about #Paris in August on my blog #LettersFromParisAndOtherMissives (hear me interviewed!):
www.maykenbruenings.com/paris-closed...
Got a D-1 mail for my #Paris2024 event tomorrow that includes advice, do's and don'ts'. About water bottles (allowed up to 750ml, no glass) they say there'll be taste tests at the entrance.
I have questions.
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
A volunteer of the Paris 2024 Olympics in his volunteer uniform in a nondescript side street of Paris
Just another day of #LifeInParis #GamesEdition.
I see volunteers almost every morning or evening. Reminds me that #Paris2024 is right here in my town.
And now off to work.
#LifeinParis #GamesEdition
A barrier with 2 security people, behind them on the road several female triathlon cyclists, behind a blue barrier, a crowd of spectators, in the background a building at Invalides
Women's triathlon cycling!
#Paris2024 #Triathlon #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
Triathlon swimmers in the Seine, 2 kayaks and a boat acvompanying them, two big yellow buoys marking the turning point of the second lap
They are swimming in the Seine!
#Paris2024 #Triathlon #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
View of Invalides bridge and stands full of spectators, Grand Palais in the background
Five minutes to go! #Paris2024 #Triathlon #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
Large pink sign indicating the direction of Invalides Olympic site outside a métro station
Good sign-posting at La Tour-Maubourg métro station!
#Paris2024 #Triathlon #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
So today it's far-too-early-o'clock, the "go" was given, and I'm off in the rain (go figure), hoping to glimpse some #Triathlon action.
#Paris2024 #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
Today I got a D-3 mail. Not that I need to be told how to get there: it's where the #CowFair (SIA) takes place in February. Just checked which stations are closed.
To be continued but 4/4 for now.
#Paris2024 #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
The ticket popped up immediately in my ticket app (I already had tickets for the Paralympics), and I got a mail D-5 with information on the site, the sport, forbidden objects etc. 3/4
#Paris2024 #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
I had to search for a bit on the ofgicial resale site but since I needed only 1 ticket (DH wasn't interested), I ended up finding one. I'll probably need binoculars to see the athletes, but I'm going for the atmosphere. 2/4
#Paris2024 #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
So on Sunday night I spontaneously bought a ticket for #Paris2024.
I wanted to spend a reasonable amount and see a sport where I at least get the basics. Plus, on my side of town and before Saturday. 1/4
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
Station name sign inside the métro station in Olympic pink indicating the station Invalides and the 3 Games sites: Invalides, Grand Palais, and Pont Alexandre III
Not getting off here at far-too-early-o'clock this morning: the triathlon has been postponed as the Seine hasn't met the required standards this morning. (I pity the people who have to collect the measurements at 4am.)
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition #Olympics #Paris2024
A row of narrow (empty) Coca Cola fridges lined up on the curb along the Louvre at night-time
Anyone in need of a leftover fridge from the Opening Ceremony? Saw these as I was strolling along the Louvre last night.
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
A tethered hot-air balloon in the night sky, below a faint dark silhouette of trees and buildings. A flame burns in the flat basket below the round balloon, so that the basket and the underside of the balloon are yellow
In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers' balloon flew over the Tuileries in Paris. For #Paris2024 the #OlympicFlame 🔥 does the same every night. Enjoy.
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
The Seine river at nightfall, on the other bank part of the Louvre and the Olympic cauldron in the shape of a hot-air balloon in the night sky above the Tuileries Gardens
DH and I went out for a ride and a walk in town tonight. There's a new light in the sky over #Paris.
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
France TV has so many channels showing #Paris2024 that even the journalists get lost: "I think we're on France 2 right now and we're handing over to France 3."
They were on France 5 and handed over to France 2.
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
Left lane of a French highway with "Paris 2024" written on the asphalt, a sign indicates in French "Paris 2024 accredited vehicles".
Bike lane on a Paris street, on the asphalt are a bike symbol and a pink square with "Paris 2024" written in white at its center
On the roads, highways etc. serving #Paris2024 sites, there are lanes reserved for accredited vehicles (left). I recently discovered there are also bike lines (right).
I'll stick to the métro this week. #LifeInParis #GamesEdition
My colleague on the (French) west coast keeps checking in on me. What are they hearing about #LifeInParis #GamesEdition there, I wonder?
Screen showing Paris métro and suburban train lines, 4 of threm in orange, 3 in red
So today is the big day. More red and orange on the métro lines (below), not quite as many people on transport as earlier this week. I'm going to work but I finish early.
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
Two pink signs in a Paris métro station indicating which métro and train lines to take for various Games sites (lines J, L, 9, 14)
And which way to the office?
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition #SomePeopleHaveToGoToWork
Part of the msp for Paris métro line one on which 4 stations are highlighted in pink and 3 others indicated as closed
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
Whild the pink highlights indicate the stations serving Games sites, the stations actually closest to the sites are closed for security reasons. This gets problematic when 2 of them are main North-South/East-West changing stations.
Pink Paris Games subway sign indicating the sites that can be reached via lines 9, 12, 13, and 14
Pink Paris Games subway sign indicating the sites that can be reached via lines E, 12, and 13
Pink Paris Games subway sign indicating the sites that can be reached via lines 9 and 14
Pink Paris Games subway sign indicating the sites that can be reached via train lines J and L
#LifeInParis #GamesEdition
Are you ready to take the #Paris métro to get to the Games sites?
