PARIS, Je t'aime. Friday, 2 of my new friends took a day trip to Paris. It was so amazing! We got up at 430 in the morning to catch the Eurostar from St. Pancras station. We arrived in Paris at 10am, there's an hour time difference too. The first thing we did was hop on the Metro to the Notre Dame, which is unbelievable! Since I had been in soooo many cathedrals in the last month, we opted out to go inside, and the line was miles long. But I thought the outside was the best anyway. After seeing the Notre Dame, we were starving so went to a cafe for some LEGIT french crepes! Which was probably the best thing I've ever eaten. Then that was over, and we walked on the Seine to the Louvre! Everything is pretty close together so walking wasn't toooo bad, but we did get an unlimited metro card for the day with our tour package! We arrived at the Louvre, which was packed with people, and personally I think the coolest part of the museum is the glass pyramid on top and that was all we saw anyway. The line to get into the museum was extremely long too, and we were on a tight schedule! We only had 9 more hours to do stuff for goodness sakes. After the Louvre, we walked along the Seine again towards the Eiffel Tower ou le Tour Eiffel. The walk was really nice, and luckily the weather was too! On our way, we stopped at a boulangerie (a place where they sell sandwiches and pastries) to grab some lunch. I felt very proud of myself because I spoke to the lady in French the entire time without speaking English when I was ordering my food :) I paid for a delicious sandwich and a french macaron, which was to DIE for. The baguettes are sooo tastey and deliciousnesssy, must be the water.
Anyway, after that we were at the Eiffel tower! It's amazing, one of the most amazing landmarks I have ever seen anyway, and I get around Europe! And for 3 Euros we could take the stairs to the second floor! WOOHOO you bet we did it. 668 LONG steps to get up to one of the most amazing views I have ever seeeen in my LIFE. And yes, my calves are still killing me. And after all the walking we went on our free River cruise to see all the cool landmarks of Paris, it was nice to sit, and to see all the sites of course :) hehe
The next part of our journey took us to le Champs Elysees and le Arc de Triomphe, amazing. 8 lanes of chaos! There's a tunnel to take you to the Arc so you don't risk your life trying to get to it from the street level, otherwise we'd all be dead. From one street all the way down you can see le Grand Arche also. Which by the way is MASSIVE, it looked way closer to the Arc de Triomphe because it is so huge. When we got to La Defense to see the Arche, you can see the tiny Arc and then we realized that trying to walk from the two was probably a mistake. (we attempted to walk it).
Our day was almost done, but first, we had to get souvenirs! Aka a bunch of bread. I bought some macaroons for Rich and his fam for letting me stay, and I bought some sandwiches and croissants for myself, so delicious!
That was basically the end to our Paris adventure, I saw everything I wanted to, although I would have really liked to see Versailles, but another day. We started off to the train station to head back into London on the Eurostar, which is the fastest train in Europe going about 150 mph. So crazy to think that!
The next day Rich came up to stay with me for the weekend to hang out and live the London life for a couple days. We went to Houses of Parliament that day too and he was able to go in. And get this, most English have no idea you can even go into Parliament! Even though it's only open Saturdays, luckily we got tix with ISA. It is such an amazing building with sooo much history too and we were able to see places that are actually used when Parliament meets and that goes on TV! I feel so lucky :) That night we went out on the town and met up with a few real Londoners, aka Rich's friends. It was good night!
This weekend was very fun filled and a very busy week ahead! Update soon loveliessss!
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