The journey from Montmarte to the Eiffel Tower was not that near that we could walk, so we used the Metro. The Metro is quite confusing at first, but you'll get the hang of it.
If you look at the Paris Metro (subway) map, it just looks like a tangle of lines. Just note that the lines are either numbers or a letter, numbers are Metro stations and letters are RER stations, but all also subway la. same same but different.
Also, some of the trains do not have automatic doors, you have to pull a latch on some, push a button on some, to open the doors. So don't panic if the doors don't open on your stop, you have to open it up yourself. And also remember to say 'pardon' (in a french way...like Par-Don...??) when you want to get through....i think they probably don't respond to 'excuse me'.
So yeah, we took a Metro, stopped at the stop where the Eiffel Tower was supposed to be, but we couldn't find it!!
Always just a reflection on building windows but it was nowhere to be seen. We must've taken the back way (we found out when we walked back to the station after we chilled at the Eiffel Tower) coz it did not look like we were heading the right direction, got no tourists!!!
After what must have been 15 minutes and after passing many French cafes where a typical dinner for one costs at least 20€, and beers cost 8€, we managed to find the one monument that if you don't see, meant that you have not been to Paris...the Eiffel Tower.
The One monument that is a must see when in Paris
so tall (not really) that it was dizzying to see it
aips been there!!
errr........you get it la
At every hour, the tower lights up like a Christmas tree, once i get round to it, maybe i'd post up the moving jpeg of it....
We didn't go up on it, we being kiamsap, decided to save the 12€ that would have cost us to go right to the top. But then, you'd want to get an overall picture of Paris WITH the Eiffel Tower in it right?? So, it would have been better to go to another place, the tallest building in Paris,
Tour Montparnasse, to catch the full view of Paris. It was cheaper summore!!
OK, this is probably no longer a guide, so it's going to be renamed, Paris - Day 2 on the next post.....
tomorrow....
all wet out there
our normal breakfast of nice soft fluffy croissant and cold cuts and sausages....yummy
the interesting spiral staircase of our hotel
at the famous inverted pyramid at the Louvre's underground shopping centre
got no 'holy grail' also??!!
one of the more interesting statues at the Louvre. I just found out that the Louvre is the biggest museum in the world and the Vatican museum is the 2nd largest
the Greek statue waits as the world passes by
da vinci's painting, if i am not mistaken, this is where the curator in Da Vinci's Code (the movie/book) died in front of
that's her alright, the mona lisa, so small.....always thought it'd be bigger
the mona lisa, some says that the one hanging there is not the original, the original is kept elsewhere
the main reason EVERYONE comes to the Lourve for
figuring out where to go next
chinese guy lepaks while the world goes by
we were here!!
old man 'zerox-ing' a painting
the famous tiles of the grand gallery
the crazier crowd when we made our way back to the mona lisa after getting lost
a huge ass famous french painting, famous coz i saw a jigsaw puzzle of it
chicko poses while the world passes by
the other famous artwork that people go to the Louvre for
the name says it all
not too famous statue
the original Louvre from the 1400's
thunder thunder thunder....thundercats.....hoeeee!!!
the Louvre and it's amazing pyramid
i swear that the Apple store in 5th Ave New York copied the Louvre's design!!
a really good hot chocolate to warm us up before we venture out into the rain
the Louvre and the rain
