Paris Day 2 - Part 3

Back in the warmth of the hotel. You rarely appreciate Malaysian weather until you go out overseas and freeze your A$$ everytime you go out and not dress warm enough.

heard some 'noises' while waiting for the lift

the cold got to her, consequence of thinking that you really don't have to dress warmly when the sun is out during the day

out of the Metro and on to....

The Moulin Rouge

we were there!!

right smack in the red light district

can't beleive the things we saw.....which was nothing!!

view when you're in a spaceship waiting to be launched into outer space!!

we were there a bit too late, they didn't let us up the Champs Elysee, so we just take picture la, we were there!!!

After being shoo-ed away from Champ Elysee and no shops open at that time, we decided to go back, but needed to make a pit stop to the most famous building in Paris, besides Eiffel Tower...

The Lourve

at night, without all the visitors, so peaceful

we were there!!

Tried looking for the place where Mary Magdelene was supposed to be buried (as per Da Vinci Code) but couldn't find the exact place. Found out later it is actually in a roundabout and you can't really walk atop it unless you want to fall right through it, but we did find the point where the inverted pyramid touches the mini pyramid and the place is actually a shopping area just before the underground entrance to the Lourve

the Metro station to The Lourve

junk food in Paris is so much more expensive than London, Paris no credit crunch ah??

to be continued ... TOMORROW

Paris Day 2 - Part 2

To make full use of the Paris Museum Pass which allowed us into many of the tourist/historical sites for a one off payment of i think 30 euro, we had to find nearby attractions and go for as many as possible, this is our usual kiasu-ness inherited from the asian in us.

beware of pigeons, they may shit at you at any time

the Conciergerie, not too good of an attraction, Marie Antoinette got prisoned there, and that's just about as exciting (if that is even exciting enough) as it got, apart from this nice spiral staircase

Sainte-Chapelle, home of the most stained glass windows in a church i have seen. nice, but you need to know what you're looking at. it's supposedly the story of the bible interpreted into stained glass art, but we got bored after looking at one section of the stained glass

then it was off on the Paris Metro in search of something more interesting....

The Pantheon, with its high ceiling and huge ass paintings and a pendulum right in the middle the catherdral....

the pendulum, to show the movement of the earth corresponds to time??

down below are the catacombs, where famous dead french people have tombs there

victor hugo wrote les miserables.....and is quite an important person in the frech revolution perhaps?

the outside of the Pantheon

forgot what this park was called, but it was a bit too cold to hang out there for too long....

double decker train in the Paris metro....we went home, to get warm and then maybe go out again, to see some 'intresting' stuff

to be continued ... tomorrow!!

Paris Day 2 - Part 1

OK!! This is really outdated, Paris seems so far ago....i think i already posted the first day, so it's time to 'review' what happened in the 2nd day. In case next time i lose my memory or something, at least i'd be able to read this and remember how fun & tiring it was being el cheapo tourists in Paris.

Tip for the el cheapo tourists, ususally Parisian hotels provide breakfast, so have as much as you can, the food is usually good, crossoints and proscuitto, cereals and such....fill up until cannot fill up the stomach anymore and then tapau somore for lunch & maybe dinner!!! A usefull tip i just learnt, before you depart to where ever you're going, get those plastic bags from the airport....you know, the ones where you're supposed to put your liquids in....those are good doggy bags to tapau food from the breakfast buffet!!

We managed to find notre dame catherdral, sooooo many tourist, and so many gypsys too. If you see a middle eastern looking woman wearing a scarf on her head and asks whether you speaking the english, just walk away.....


the interior of the catherdral, the stained glass windows.....so pretty....




such a huge catherdral, the ceilings so high!! i wonder how to bounce flash if you shoot a wedding here....hehee

after we got bored of the inside of the catherdral, it was time to go up the towers, the very same towers where the hunchback, quasimodo, rung the bells

the many gargoyles/water sprouts on the outside of the cathedral

"what was i thinking when i signed up for this job??"

spot the non-gargoyle trying to be a gargoyle

more gargoyles

this gragoyle look like a kambing with his beard, see eiffell tower in the background

the doorway to the bell room was so small!! how did quasimodo get it???

one of the many bells in the tower, there's like a few bells, each one makes a different tone

the old wooden stairs

the Paris landscape from the top of Notre Dame

the crazy small spiral staircase. and this is at least 7 stories up, more steps than Batu Caves too. and the thing is, you can't really stop halfway up to catch your breath coz there's like a lot of people right behind you, so you've got to suck it up and just soldier on!!

going down not too bad, we took our time. can stop to pose pose summore

the front facede of Notre Dame, amazing how the did all the details on the carvings

yeap, it's THAT tall!!

mulled wine in cold weather keeps you warm....and that's a cool sculpture, when viewd from the side, it's a woman....

Notre Dame, in all it's glory!! Can't beleive it's been around for so long!!!

on to the next Paris destination......off to Part 2!! Tomorrow!!

Another Countdown begins....

So, it's about time another countdown begins. Unfortunately, this is 'the' countdown. The Countdown to our flight back home to KL.

With the current economic recession hitting the UK really hard and with our fund running out really fast, we have decided to head home. sob sob....no more super cold non-diluted & cheap ($ to $) draught beers anymore.....no more picnics in the park and getting frozen towards the end of the picnic, no more having to wait for public transportation & having to travel an hour to get 10km away (this i don't mind), no more Sunday roasts with yorkshire puddings (altough i had only enjoyed 1.5 out of the 3 times i had Sunday roasts, no more hearing 'You alright??', no more yummy roast duck from Bayswater and the list goes on.

It's another 23 days till we get back to the sun....to roti canai, to kanna curry house, to pudu melt in your mouth siew yoke, to eat all you can sushi in Umaiya, to hokkein mee with crunchy pork lard, to being able to go anywhere you want, anytime you want, to the traffic jams, to being able to go to resort islands every other weekend, to driving up to Penang to have Char Koay Teow (4 hours drive ain't so bad as compared to driving 13 hours in the US!!).......going back doesn't sound too bad after all...

and also going back to see my new nephew born today, 4th May 2009, and to making his cousin, hopefully coming out in the year of the Tiger.......

it's time for a new start....

Goodbye London!!! It was fun.....while the money lasted!!!

I WILL post up Paris a& London posts while we go on another adventure to Rome (the land of Angels & Demons!!) and Barcelona!!

See yaaaaa!!!