Why is Paris always have this unique flair in the air. The weather and atmosphere seems dramatic, and chic when I stroll around the city. We are back to Singapore right now, landed 7am this morning, and after a quick check at luggage services, we quickly take taxi home to rest before my office hour. The 3-day in Paris passed quickly. We use the first day to stroll around the city and has the one experience of tourist cheat over the ticket - infuriating. Other than the upsetting experience in Paris (which seems like everyone we know had experience in Paris) we enjoyed our final leg of the journey...
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| Arrival at Paris Gare Du Nord station |
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| Department store, closes on Sunday... (boo) |
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| Classic Hotel Du Ville |
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| The following morning we went to explore Paris by ourselves, nearby La Marais neighbourhood |
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| Breakfast with a croissant at a budget cafe around Pompidou Centre |
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Church (Paroisse Saint Eustache) that is adjacent to Jardin Nelson Mandela.
The nearby site is under construction, also the RER interchange for Les Halles-Chatelet |
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| The Bourses |
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| Louvre Pyramid |
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| Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel |
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| Musee D'Orsay |
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| Pont Royal |
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| Mini bug at Palais Bourbon |
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| Lunch at Le Saint Germain |
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| outstanding Pave du Thon (seared tuna steak) |
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| big plate of mussels dish (very good as well) |
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| third dish we ordered was Pork Medallion |
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| Eiffel view from Esplanade des Invalides |
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| Musee Rodin |
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| Walking along Invalides |
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| Invalides |
Afterwards we took bus 89 back to our accomodation which was at Le Marais. That is a good bus touring around the city passing famous sights (preciously the direction we were walking earlier in the morning!). A bus ticket costs 2 Euro on board of the bus, if you bought in advance from ticket machines, the generic ticket (which can be used for bus,train,tram, or metro) costs 1.90 each or 14.40 in a pack of 10.
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| the next morning Carousel near Place du Concorde |
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| Champ-Élysées |
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| Arc du Triomphe |
We then continued to shopping at Outlet area La Vallee, which is at the end of rail RER A, the last station just before Disneyland Paris. A couple of very good brand at good deal, we shopped at Tumi and Gucci.
At night we went straight to sunset at Basilica.
