A City Like No Other

An Europe Getaway for my mom and sister, and I, the three of us with a group tour. Transit to BKK for 4 hours then waited for 6 hours in the airport, got on the plane again and headed to Paris which is a 12 hours flight. You can't imagined how numb my bum was. Feels like you wanna crack all of your bones in your body, but it's worth the pain. At last, we arrived at 7.00 o'clock in the morning. Bonjour, Paris! The first place we visited was the La Valle Village, it was the heaven for all the shopaholics out there.

Had Vesuvio pizza and rose champagne for lunch!
Bon Appetit!

After hours of shopping, we made a short stop to Disneyland Paris. We're allowed to go inside it but sadly we didn't have much time to come  so we went to shop from the merchandise store and took pictures instead. Then away we went to the hotel which almost took almost an hour until we arrive. It's not like the grand ones located in the city, but I didnt mind at all. Why stay in a five-star hotels when you're planning to go out the whole day?

oI pinched myself a few times when I woke up the next morning because knowing that we're going to the Eiffel Tower according to the tour schedule. Inside the tour bus during on our way to the city, I looked around and realized that I was the youngest. All i saw (mostly) was parents in their 40-70s and it made me felt grateful than ever to have this once-in-a-lifetime at this young age.
"La Vie En Rose" by Louis Armstrong was playing in my mind as I saw the Eiffel Tower from afar and it looks so shiny and as beautiful as I imagined that it felt surreal when our bus stopped and I got to looked at it from below. It was like a dream without having my eyes shut. The weather was so lovely, just so you know it's Spring! The sun was out the whole day but there's still a bit of a breeze.

 

The famous church that I've been watching through thiDisney movies (The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame), is the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Fun fact: this church has the longest and richest of histories out of all the famous monuments in Paris since it was already built in the Middle Ages. Entering the church, seeing the stained glass and how gothic it is mesmerized me so much I can't even describe it. I don't know if it's just me, but I suddenly imagining how people actually built this church years ago and still durable until now. This is what I love about Paris, is how the people really take care of the old buildings so well that it looks like as if it had just been built.

Inside the Cathedral

Just a few blocks from the Notre-Dame, my sister and I walked  to Shakespares and Company bookstores. It is known as 'the city light books' and was from a scene in Midnight in Paris where Gil just walked across it, and that's when I notice about how my sister wanted to go there so badly. For a book lover and a writer like she is, it's a-must! As I go inside, it felt like as if its Paris in the 20s, it was so traditional, the bookshelves made of woods, there's mostly old books and a few grunge pictures from scenes of old movies were being taped on the wall. Honestly, we weren't allowed to take pictures but I spot a few took some shots, so I sneakily did too.

Aggie the Cat (who likes to read)

The Poetry Stairs

My sister and I walked around the corners, passed the Seine River, spotted a hidden Jazz club (but of course, it opens in the late night), and admiring paintings, sketches on the sidewalks. Oh Paris! I can't stop loving you more and more throughout the day.

To our next stop: Jardin Du Luxembourg. It's this huge dreamy garden, created in the beginning of 1612 and was the widow of King Henry IV of France. Everyone is literally sun-bathing, around the fountain, on the grass, literally everywhere! Which made me wanted to do the same but what can I say, you can't do whatever you wish for when you're on a tour. Passed through all the rosebeds and gardens, to the Louvre we went, but that doesn't mean went inside it because we didn't have the time. I got really sad because I wanted to see the paintings so badly especially La Gioconda, another name for Mona Lisa, known as the most famous painting in the world.

une journée parfaite en effet

And of course, red lipsticks are for the French

To end the day, we rode this petit train to Montmartre. It's this big hill known as the highest point in the city where you can see the whole Paris and where Sacre-Coeur is located. It's a Roman Catholic church which dedicated to the heart of Jesus. Around the church, the place was filled by sidewalks cafes, hidden galleries and surrounded by Parisian artists drawing potraits.

Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

It was such a long day and we finally went back to our hotel, I had to admit I felt pretty unsatisfied because of the fact we didn't have time to enter museums and art galleries which was the ones I was looking forward to the most. I'll be back hopefully, Paris. je t'aime à chaque battement de mon cœur!