Paris Day 3 Part 1

The weather on the 3rd day of the trip was not too good. It was raining, but unlike London where we just sleep in if it rains, we have to go out to explore Paris.

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

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!!