Thursday 31 March 2016 11:44, UK
Dan Carter says he feels settled in Paris following two months of being an anonymous tourist in the French capital.
The 34-year-old World Rugby Player of the Year joined Top 14 hopefuls Racing 92 after helping New Zealand defend their World Cup crown in October.
And after an initial "crazy" period, punctuated by numerous sponsor and PR commitments, Carter says he is now starting to feel at home.
"Paris is a very big international city, I can walk the streets and nobody knows who I am, which is pretty refreshing," said the former Crusaders star, who also spent a short stint in France, at Perpignan, in 2009.
"There's just so much to do, it's crazy - we get one day off a week and I really enjoy exploring the city, you never do the same thing twice.
"There's so many different things to do, whether it's seeing the amazing cultural things here in Paris. There are some amazing chateaux, some amazing restaurants, a lot of variety for me and my family to enjoy.
"I'm a lot more settled now but definitely the first two months was all about seeing what I could do on my day off, maximising it as much as possible, being a tourist in this city that I'm living in - I really enjoyed it.
"It was amazing but I'm a lot more settled now, feeling like we have our little local restaurants and our favourite markets to go to, we're a lot more settled now."
