Paris: Checked! #2

Okay fellas after I fight my procrastinator soul and motivate myself to write, finally. My previous Paris trip story is here and here we go, let's continue the fun!

I slept well that night at Vista's friend's apartment and we woke up feeling so energetic in the morning. We decided to not spending time longer and started to wander around the city more. The first place was Musée du Louvre, and we were not in rush or something, we wanted to enjoy our last day in Paris. 

I can say that Paris is really lovely, because there are so many tourism sites near each other so you can just walk slowly and cherish them all, I would look to the right and find this site, and when I looked to the left I find that site so I'm cool.

I went to  Arc de triomphe de l'Étoile again for the second time and walked along Champs-Élysées. It's a really popular road in Paris where everyone spent their day out shopping or just chilling in the cafe. I read one of the articles stating that there was Paris Fashion Week at that time and G-Dragon was actually hanging out in Champs-Élysées the previous night.

G-Dragon. GD. Was. In. Paris. Bless.

Champs-Élysées was so beautiful that day, there were so many France flags along the street and there were so many people hanging out there.

The street is actually so big and in the end of Champs-Élysées, there is  really big ferris wheel. People call it as La Grande Roue de Paris or The Giant Paris Ferris Wheel. It's so huge and you can still see it from far away. 

There is a really nice park near the ferris wheel. Vista and I were walking slowly and enjoying the view because it's been a really chilly day. Spring is at the corner, but still cold. The park is really huge and there are so many trees, and benches, statues, and it's so beautiful.

So many people went to that park for jogging, or maybe just sitting on one of the benches near the big fish pond just to read a book or simply just eating their snacks. If I live in paris, I might as well spend my day in this park.

In the other side of the park, there it is. Musée du Louvre, the museum for the glorious Monalisa by Leonardo da Vinci. It's a popular art museum which has a really unique shape, triangular, like a pyramid but made of glass. There were so many people queueing in front of the entrance. I didn't come inside because I have no money HA-HA. 

Gotta save money for foods!

I met so many Indonesians here in this site. So funny. They were like, "Haha, we are from Indonesia but meet in Paris, so far." 

I spent my time sitting near the site, scrutinizing people, again. I'm sorry I really like sitting and chilling. And eating. But I don't bring any foods there.

After a while, we continued our journey to the next site, Notre Dame. It's located in a really small island in the river in the middle of Paris. We have to walk a lot from the metro station to this place. It's a cathedral, apparently. I spent my time sitting again HA-HA because I was so tired. 

Me and Vista just sat there, and looked at people. Then we decided to go back to the apartment and take a rest. So glad we didn't get lost for the second time. I bought some breads and milk from the convenient store next to our apartment too.

It was raining outside and we spent the rest of the afternoon eating noodles and looking for tickets to go to the next city, yay!

Afer hours taking rest in the room, Vista told me that she wanted to go to Eiffel Tower again to witness how it looks like at night. Of course I wouldn't miss that chance and I decided to accompany her. 

And.

Yeah, Eiffel Tower at night is really beautiful. 

I'm sorry I can't write the detail because I'm so tired right now, but see you at the next post in different city! <3

Paris: Checked! #1

Truth to be told, I'm kinda feeling sad today because my harddisk is broken. I don't know what happened but I can't connect it to my computer. I'm super duper sad and furious, I have a lot of datas there. Now, I don't know what should I do. I will bring it to computer service or anything and fix it. I hope it's okay! /Adele's All I Ask as BG music

Okay, so after my München and Köln trips are out, my next destination is Paris!

Franzi is kind enough to help me and Vista buying the ticket from Köln to Paris. As always, we bought FlixBus tickets and they are a little bit expensive because we bought them 3 hours before the schedule. Soooooo yeah our schedule is: Tuesday, March 8th 2016 23:30 PM from Leverkusen Mitte (Köln) to Porte Maillot (Paris)!

It took 10 hours for us to get to Paris because it's quite far. We passed Belgium again if I'm not mistaken. The time we arrived there, it's raining and we stood near the locket while Vista contacting her friend because we will stay at her friend's apartment for two days.

I told you. It's so hard to find the apartment because we don't know where is the Metro station. I asked one of the passerbies and she said she doesn't know either because she is a tourist too. What. Okay, so we were trying to find the station by walking about 700 meters with our huge luggages and it was so difficult because it rained a lot. 

And then, finally we found the metro station undeground AND WE HAVE TO CARRY OUR LUGGAGES DOWNSTAIRS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ESCALATOR OR LIFTS. Sorry I was mad at that time because, man, why there's no lift in the metro station? I have two luggages and all of them are about 30 kgs. So I have to carry one luggage first, and then back uptairs to carry the other luggage. Vista was struggling too because her luggage is so heavy.

What's worst? There are stairs again in every corner. Slap me. This is new version of American Horror Story.

There are so many stairs in the metro station. So many. We were struggling. MUCH. But it's okay, people are so kind, they helped us to bring our luggages. Most of them are men. They just stopped, and they were like can I help you with these bricks or they just brought our luggages without saying anything. Thank you, people. God blesses you.

After we bought the tickets and all, we went to the apartment near Lamarck Caulaincourt metro station and arrived there at around 2 PM because we get lost in the way (with heavy rain), took a rest and took a bath, ah heaven. 

And after that, we decided to go out and spent our first day to visit some places in Paris and the first one was Sacré-Cœur.

Going to Sacré-Cœur is such a good idea because it's located in a hill or something, I don't know but when you get there, you can see Paris from above and that was amazing!

We walked for awhile, there are so many souvenir shops along the street. We decided to go to Arc de triomphe de l'Étoile. Paris is such a big and busy city. A lot of people walk by and I like the atmosphere a lot. Different with Germany and Czech Republic, cars and motorcycles are everywhere! It was the first time for me to see a motorcycle in Europe.

I sat in the bench near the park around this wall, and just staring at the birds. Again. It feels nice just sit there and doing nothing and scrutinize the cars. I really remember Vista said, "Is this Jakarta or Paris? Why is it so crowded," Well, yeah, public transportation everywhere and sometimes there's a traffic jam. Horns blaring.

Enough with this site, we went to Concorde metro station, transit in Franklin D. Roosevelt, and get off in Trocadero metro station. You have to read map carefully so you can get to your destination without getting lost. 

We walked for awhile and finally we arrived at Paris Tower!

The sky was so dark and it was so cloudy because like I've told you before, it rained heavily in Paris at that time. But it's okay as long as it's not as hot as frying pan.

After taking a lot of pictures from up here, me and Vista walked a little bit along the fountain. Paris Tower is located strategically, surrounded by streets and parks. We decided to get closer to the tower even though it's a little bit far by walking.  

Paris tower is soooo huge from up close! Vista said it looks like TV tower, bunch of metals. I didn't get to the peak of the tower because I have to pay 23 Euros for God's sake. I better buy banana milk again, I'm truly sorry...

The weather was cold as always, I'm freezing. 

We walked a little through the park near the tower. The name of the wide green park is Champ de Mars. It's nice, people walked by, they even bring their pets for a walk, so many snack shops, so many Indonesians. I repeat, so many Indonesians. 

Vista went to the building in the end of the the park, but because I was too tired and so hungry, I decided to buy snack by myself and sat in one of the benches available all over the park.

I bought chocolate banana crepe! It's such a huge portion for 9 Euros. I sat near the shop while staring at the crowd. After 5 minutes scrutinizing the situation (and the crowd), I just realized that they were filming something there. Such an interesting sight to see.

The weather was becoming so cold I always wanted to go back home everytime. Right after spending a lot of time staring at people, me and Vista decided to go home because we were tired, very. We just spent our night at our apartment, and Vista's friend's boyfriend cooked us a lot of foods and I was so thankful. There are so many kind people in the world.

See you in Paris part #2! (Because it's too long for two days in one post)