Day 2 in Paris was more walking again. This time we went to this shopping place called the Forum des Halles. It was quite a decent shopping place and we spent some time window shopping. After which, we settled down in a park outside the shopping area and "suntan-ed" a bit. Had some of the left over bread that we koped from the hotel breakfast. After the rest, we continued our walk to the Louvre Museum and stopped by some pastry shop to have some macaroons.
The park
Pastries!
Reached the Louvre Museum and it was freaking huge! And packed too. We actually wanted to go in, but it was mid-day already and we figured we had other places to cover too. Also, James and Karen weren't interested in the paintings and sculptures, so we decided to give it a miss after we took many wacky photos.
More pictures for my lack of words
With that, we headed down to the famous street of Champs Elysees and also to see the Arc de Triomphe. After a long walk (the Louvre is so huge that we took a long time to walk pass it!), we unknowingly reached Champs Elysees and boy oh boy was I disappointed. The street was just any normal looking street with trees and further down, all the shopping boutiques. Blah! It's a long and hot stretch of road that has nothing to see! :( So disappointed. Even the Arc de Triomphe was like a blah in the middle of the road. Haiz.
Champs Elysees
Arc de Triomphe
By the time we had reached the Arc, we were all so tired and worned out that we decided to take a metro back to near our hostel, grab dinner and go back to the hotel to rest. Looking at the clock, we had already walked for like 7hours! And the previous day at least 9hours, not including the stairs I had to climb!
Dinner was kebab and the portion was huge again with drinks. But it's quite expensive. 9euros for all that. :(
Day 3 in Paris, which is also the day we are leaving Paris for Belgium, was spent in the train station since we didn't know how the train works for international travel. But we managed to finally eat our crepes and escargot. The crepes were so-so only, but the escargot was not bad. At least it didn't have any smelly smell that I expected it to have. Quite nice!
Crepe! And Escargot.
With our last meal in Paris, we headed on a train to Brussels, which was quite fast, 1hr20mins. On the train ride, we managed to see a rainbow stretching across the sky. Beautiful! About Brussels, till the next post!
