Meeting Your Trip in LAROCHE — 2007


On this page, you will find information about meeting your trip. Topics include...

• When and Where your trip meets.
• What is Included in Your Access Package (if you subscribed to it).
  • What Travel Documents you need, and how you will get them.

We suggest that you print these pages out, and bring a copy with you to your trip.

When and Where:
Our trip assembles at the railway junction of Laroche-Migennes. Two meetings are offered: 10:30a and 2p (corresponding to the arrival of express trains from Paris).

Other meeting times are available by prior arrangement only. If your flight times are not compatible with catching a midday train from Paris, be sure to contact us well in advance of your trip departure.

The trip coordinator (and the bikes) will travel to Burgundy on a train departing Paris at 8:30a. If you are coming from Paris (and most do for this trip), taking that train gets you an earlier start on the day, which is long and beautiful. Otherwise, the later train, departing Paris at 12:27p, will still leave you time for a shortened version. In that case, however, we suggest that you picnic on board, so to have lunch out of the way by the time you meet your bike.

An important note concerning shipped luggage:
if you have subscribed to one of our luggage transfer services, the luggage is shipped by a train that departs Laroche only minutes after the arrival of the late express from Paris. In this case, your piece should be ready to go as you step off the train in Laroche . In other words, the station forecourt at 2p is not the place to start unpacking and repacking!

You will depart Laroche by bicycle....
You thus have the issue of changing into your cycle clothes. You may as well face this before you meet your trip... it will have you on the bike all the sooner. Hint: the bathroom on the train is probably cleaner than the one in the Laroche station :-(


Special Case: meeting in Auxerre
If you trip is meeting in Auxerre instead of Laroche (you will know if this is the case), here is how to get to the Hotel Normandie from the Auxerre Station.
A long walk: we suggest a taxi. Otherwise, exit the station and continue down to the river, which you cross. Continue uphill to a traffic circle. The Hotel Normandie is on the opposite side of the circle, on the right.


Included in Your Access Package, if you subscribed to it:
A train ticket from Paris to Laroche, where we start our ride.

Travel Documents will be supplied by our Paris office (opening hours), unless you are arriving via a different route, in which case they will be sent to you at home, prior to your departure. You will receive either a train ticket, or a railpass with accompanying explanation regarding its use, and a schedule for the train that you have reserved.