The unfinished Paris trip

The next day, we really slept till our heart content then only woke up. We had our breakfast in hostel. It was French bread. The hardness of the bread almost can kill a cat. Poor me, with my braces, I can't afford to digest its hard cover. So I only dug out the content of it to makan. haha :p

After check out hostel, we left our luggage bags in store room. Normally backpacker hostel will provide a room for luggage storage for customers after they have checked out. We left our things there and with a backpack, we began our second day Paris trip.

We bought another metro day pass. French seldom can speak or understand English. Today we met her who can speak English. She asked that are we under 26 and we said yes. Then she charged us €3.30 for our day pass. OMG, we had bought expensive ticket yesterday and Jo also got no idea of this even thought this was already her second visit. Never mind, at least still can save €2.50.

The first destination we went was Notre Dame which is famous for Hunchback of Notre Dame in novel by Victor Hugo (Notre Dame = our lady of Paris). It is a sacred building. Since it was Sunday, a lot of people are queuing up to get in there. We only took some photos out there. It started to rain halfway we took photos. Luckily umbrella was by our side and we still can continue with our journey. Then our jojo jiejie's jacket dunno kena what geli thing. We had to stop a while to clean up her jacket. She was so smart. She used her alcohol spray to clean her jacket. No wonder she can get scholarship.

After spending some time here, we planned to take some free tour. Many places in Europe offer free tour for tourists. These tours will bring tourists around and tell them the story behind these places. When the tour ends, tourists will give some tips to the tour guide. We only followed this tour for short while, then we decided to walk on our own, mainly because I can't understand the tour guide's English (my English is poor), partly because we were too obsessed with taking photos till always lag behind the tour and everyone was waiting for us. After dropped off from the tour, we walked around and sightseeing.

We decided to take our lunch in a French local restaurant. We ordered a glass of wine, roast duck and salmon. They tasted good. I like the roast duck. The waiter was so warm and friendly. When we asked one of the waiters to take photo for us, the other waiter even join in the photo.

After lunch, we headed off to famous Louvre Museum. In the rain, we read the map and found our way to the musuem. We even lost but we managed to reach there by asking people around. Wow, the musuem was so big and we wrongly entered the museum from back entrance. When we first saw the reverse triangle, we took a lot of photo with funny posts with it. The other tourists that walked past us also smiled with our acts. haha ;p Anyway, who cares, as long as we enjoyed.

We saw a long long queue at the main entrance. We was like, how come there is always long queue in Paris. Rupa-rupanya all the tourist spots can be entered FOC at the first sunday of month. No wonder the queue was so long. We also joint in the line and after waited for 1 hour, we finally get in there. The entrance led us to the underground of the museum. The museum is huge and I also dunno which way to take.

The museum was filled with crowd. Because of time constraint, we decided to watch certain famous paintings and sculptures then we left. Everybody was heading towards Mona Lisa. Now I know that the painting is so small and we only can see from far, plus layer and layer of people were surrounding the painting. We can even see clearer of Mona Lisa in TV rather than in Louvre Museum. We just took a few photos from far of it then we left to other section. The museum is large and one can spend few days to enjoy all the art collections.

She said that going up of Arch de Triumph was a must not missed event. So we took metro back to Champs Elysees and walked back to the arch. Once again, the queue was long too. Same free tickets available here. We joint the queue too. That time, we were praying that the line can move faster, cause we need to catch flight at 915pm. Luckily, it was our turn after couple minutes. We quickly went in. Wow... We had to climb so many steps to go up there. I nearly had breathing difficulties in there. Nevertheless, we managed to reach up there. We saw a lot of people over there. Gorgeous, the view of the city can be clearly seen from up there. Even though it was just 630pm, but the scene was dim and filled with night lights. It was really worth it to climb up there.

Norte Dame was our last destination before we rushed back to hostel and picked our stuffs, then quickly left. Luckily we managed to reach airport on time and get on our plane on time. fuh... always got excited stuff happening around us. But pity her, because we were so rush, we did not take any dinner. At first we thought that there will be restaurants in there after check in, manatau only have vendor machine. She was so upset and I felt so sorry to her. Sorry, dear.

The plane straight away fly us to Newcastle, the place where she stays and studies. Here come the end of my Paris trip and beginning of my homestay life in Newcastle of 172 Dilston Road. haha...

Thanks for planning this trip and guide me around Paris.