February 4th, 2007

  

I love Paris every moment,
every moment of the year…

I love Paris,
why?
oh why do I love Paris?
Because my love is near…

Bonjour! Paris was one of the best cities I’ve ever been to. There isn’t a single thing that I don’t like about Paris, although there is a big language barrier and I’ve heard bad things about french people, we never came across one rude person, in fact, they were all so helpful and friendly. We only gave ourselves 3 nights in Paris and wished that we could stay longer.. much longer.. a cause de je’t tomber amourex de Paris.

I love the language, I did do a french course in Perth almost 2 years ago, but I’ve pretty much forgotten all of it now since I had never practiced it. It would have been handy if I still had it with me when we were there.. It spun me out to hear the indian and chinese people speak French when we went to restaurants.

On our first day, we went to see the famous museum, yeah you know it.. The Louvre, where the movie Davinci’s Code was made. It was huge and to really see most of it inside, it will take you about 3-4 days. We saw the Mona Lisa painting and I was quite surprise of how small it actually was. Well it proves that in this case, size does NOT matter as that small painting was protected by an 8cm thick bullet-proof glass and had about 5 guards surrounding it. Outside the Louvre is this beautiful open area surrounded by detailed architectural buildings, water fountains and little cafes.

Although the weather was cold and rainy, it didn’t stop us from going places such as The Notre Dame, Ile de La Cite (where we ate escargot for the first time), Place de La Concorde, Champs Elysees, Moulin Rouge, Arc de Triomph and of course.. Le Tour Eiffell (The Eiffel Tower). As usual, Saj took some really impressive photos of these sites and I’d like to share them with you.

We were so lucky to have met a lovely French guy, his name was Jean Philippe (we called him JP) in the tour that we did in Amsterdam. So we met up with him again on our last day in Paris. He took us to Montmartre which is definitely my number 1 favourite place in Paris. Montmartre consists of a very artistic Parisian village located on a slightly steep slopes with narrow streets and lots of cute little bistros, shops and galleries. There were a lot of artists that offered to draw a portrait of you for approx. EUR10-25. But what I enjoyed the most were observing the artists created the beautifully hand-painted canvases of the colourful cafes and bistros around. I could stand there forever watching…

There is a catholic church perching at the top of Montmartre called Sacre Coeur (or Sacred Heart). It was the most beautiful church I have ever seen. We all strolled along Pigalle (Moulin Rouge) and Champs Alysees at night and we all had dinner near our hotel which was in St Marcel. JP was such a great host and we all talked for hours! The whole day just wasn’t enough and after midnight we were all tired and had to say goodbye to him. Thanks a lot for making our trip sweet, we surely had a great time meeting up with you and until next time we see again…

Au Revoir for now…