47km Total 12594 (plus another six to Xia-Ing’s appartment)
Slept in late in our hotel room in Clay Suouilly and stuffed about preparing bikes, cutting out NZ and TW stickers from fluorescent yellow insignia cloth. Weather was grey and grizzly and we didn’t need to reach Paris until 1pm.
Ate a leasurely breakfast, then felt terribly sick. For about 20 minutes I sat on the toilet wanting to vomit, sweat pouring off me like rain. Then suddenly it passed and I felt fine. No idea what happened!
Finally at 11:40pm (our latest start ever) we set off down Le Canal D’orcq. Stopped for a petit pain-au-chocolat, then continued to our arranged rendezvous with Ting’s brother, Xia Ing and our friends.
Beautiful riding along the canal for a while, then into a grafiti-scrawled industrial area, where we bumped into Aaron. 
Much flag waving and hand shaking. Aaron was sporting a head wound from his accident and four hour surgical operation in Russia, but was otherwise in good condition.
Soon we were re-united with Xia Ing, 
and more of Ting’s friends. Finally at the end of the canal there was my family, Rhonda, Mum and Aunty Margaret, along with some journalists.
Many more hugs and hand wiggling, pictures etc. Finally we all rode together into the centre of Paris. My three year project finally came to an end. I felt a wierd mixture of relief, exhaustion, happiness and sadness that in a few days it would be all over.
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