whatvinaeat: Bonjour Paris! (part 1)

Second destination! Paris here we come..

We fly from Barcelona to Paris via easyjet. It took only 1 hour. Actually there is a train but took around 12 hours if i'm not wrong, and cost almost the same. We don't have that much time, so we choose to fly.

We took Roissy Bus from the Airport and walk around 15mins to our Hotel. Roissy Bus will connect you from CDG Airport directly to Opera. To buy the ticket, you must use coins or credit cards. So please prepare your coins. We told by our friends before, so we already spare some coins to buy the ticket from the machine.

first meal in paris, of course it must be PAUL

Hotel : Timhotel Madeleine Opera
This hotel is strategically located very near to Saint Lazare Metro and Train Station. Just 2 mins walk.
The room is super tiny, like most of 3 stars hotel in Paris. Unless you want to spend 300euro/night for your hotel room then you can get a proper room.

But it's clean, the toilet also clean. There is Free Wifi, and it's quite fast and reliable. The lift is super tiny, and sometimes doesn't work. The receptionist can speak english and very helpful. It's also very near to Galeries Lafayette.

We didn't buy the breakfast from the Hotel because it cost 20Euro/person with not much selection. There is lots of eateries nearby, but sadly nothing is cheap. The cheapest will be baquette sandwich from Paul (around 6-8euro) and the bread is as hard as rubber T_T.

We spend the rest of the days by walking around Louvre Museum. Then heading to Champs Elysses via Tuileries Garden.And continue to Eiffel Tower.

Musee du Louvre
Our schedule to go inside the Louvre is on our last day. Today is only see it from outside.

louvre pyramid

failed jump shot

why there's a statue standing alone there. let's do something...

he say, ok..

my attempt. oh no i look fat and short beside it

gelatos!!!

first crepe in paris

eating hot chocolate crepe by the lake, cannot ask for more

grand palais??

saw a queue at champs elysses, and decided to join. it was a queue to enter abercrombie

our dinner at random fast food restaurant at champs elysses

Arc du Triomphe
It was raining and make the weather become super cold. Cannot take a proper photo of Arc du Triomphe.

white sky after the rain

Eiffel Tower
We reached there at 8.30pm and the sky is still as bright as it's only 4pm!!
We go through Champ de Mars. We have to walk across the park for 15 minutes until we can see the tower clearly without any trees blocking the view. Actually seeing the tower from here is not as good as from other place like from Trocadero. But you may expect lesser people, you can freely take photo of the tower, it's all yours. There were only 2 couples went there at the same time with us.

My first experience when first the I see Eiffel Tower is wonderful, but there is no magical feeling as compared to Sagrada Familia. Maybe because the images of the tower has been overly used everywhere, so it's already stuck in your head. But the Eiffel is really high. Higher than what I've expected before.

We didn't go up because the queue is long and I already can't feel my feet..