There you go! Here’s as close a pic i could take to capture the breath-taking awesomeness of Paris’s most monumental icon – The Eiffel Tower! Damn chio at night!
Anyway, I just had to put that at the beginning of this post to epitomize my thoughts of Paris. (I shall try to sieve out the most memorable/picturesque photo of each city for the first picture of each post from now on.)
To begin with, I’ll like to say that we’re in Amsterdam now, but by the time i get this post up we’ll probably be in Rome. Sucks to have no internet! And i was too busy/tired to blog when we were in Paris and Brussels. So yup here goes..on MSWord that is.
Well, we started our trip freezing our asses off. Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam were all below 15 deg!!! Mostly below 10. And i only brought this ugly brown overall sweater which helped to keep the cold out but was unfortunately, REALLY fugly. I REGRET not bringing the thick black coat sis offered to lend me instead!!! *boohoos* argh. Oh wells that’s just a little sad point regarding the photos.
Our first day in Paris - as soon as we got off the plane - was spent checking out the Louvre. Really felt like we were in The Da Vinci Code movie, with all the glass triangles and all. But i think the movie made the pyramids look cooler/larger than they actually are.
The inside of the Louvre was massive; a crazy amount of historical pictures of Jesus/Mary/Roman figures/Egypt and of course, the Mona Lisa. We were SUPER shagged by the time we found the Mona Lisa. The museum was like a freaking maze. Oh, and there was ALOT of nudity. Haha..apparently women in older times wore dresses below their chests...and flab was the ‘in’ thing.
Second Day – Going up the Eiffel Tower!!!
We decided to go up the Eiffel Tower in the day so we’d have better shots of the view. They installed new lifts since I was here 10 years ago! Lol..that was one good thing coz now the lifts went up more smoothly than the crickety and slow ones they had last time I remember. This time we went all the way to the 3rd floor which is the highest pinnacle of the tower. That Summit Lift was really damn scary. And i guess going up in the day didn’t waive my fear of heights haha.
And on the 3rd day of our stay in Paris, which was also the last full one, we visited the Basillica Church and The Wall of Love (which was not much, just words in different languages) and finally the night scene of The Eiffel Tower to end off our stay with a nice touch.
Yupyups! That’s the summary i have for beautiful Paris, the land of romance and French-kisses..now it’s off to some chow in Amsterdam – my last night here! Update on Brussels my FAVE city so far! It’s even better than Paris! :)
Second Day – Going up the Eiffel Tower!!!
We decided to go up the Eiffel Tower in the day so we’d have better shots of the view. They installed new lifts since I was here 10 years ago! Lol..that was one good thing coz now the lifts went up more smoothly than the crickety and slow ones they had last time I remember. This time we went all the way to the 3rd floor which is the highest pinnacle of the tower. That Summit Lift was really damn scary. And i guess going up in the day didn’t waive my fear of heights haha.
Oh, and we saw a couple taking wedding photos on the tower! Respect man! The top was so cold and she still managed to run around wearing a tube dress..and it was also very crowded coz of the swarms of tourists gathered around. Hmm..overall, my take is that it is not advisable to take your wedding pictures ON the tower. I prefer pictures OF the tower actually..like this one:
Yup, well besides these 2 attractions, we there was the Arc De Triomph and The Notre Dame Cathedral which was so beautiful inside i think it would turn even the rebellious pious. And we climbed up the tower, which was a back-breaking and dizzying 400 winding steps. Winding as in really the spiral kind in towers. No wonder the Hunchback of Notre Dame was hunched la!
Notre Dame Cathedral
Beautiful stained glass windows everywhere.
Famous stone gargoyle on top of Notre Dame Cathedral.
After climbing the steps up and down the cathedral we chanced upon Bertillion Ice Cream. It is THE BEST ice cream on EARTH!! They should totally import in to SG coz it was so crazily delicious! Maybe it was just the Rum and Raisin and Dark Choc combi, but both were so gao and shiok even in the cold weather. We’re totally going back to try it in our last 3 days of Grad trip!
And on the 3rd day of our stay in Paris, which was also the last full one, we visited the Basillica Church and The Wall of Love (which was not much, just words in different languages) and finally the night scene of The Eiffel Tower to end off our stay with a nice touch.
Yupyups! That’s the summary i have for beautiful Paris, the land of romance and French-kisses..now it’s off to some chow in Amsterdam – my last night here! Update on Brussels my FAVE city so far! It’s even better than Paris! :)
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