Red Nose Day

It was the end of the Red Nose Day campaign here in London. Red Nose Day is a like a fund raising thingo for children in Africa or something like that.

Anyways, they lighted up the London Eye in Red in conjunction with the Red Nose Day. So it was pretty cool to see the London Eye in red instead of it's usual O2 blue.

Dunno whether the Big Ben is lighted up in green in conjunction with St Patrick's Day??

Up next, a break from Paris post. St Patrick's Day in Trafalgar Square....the way St Patrick's Day should be celebrated!!!

Paris: The Guide (Not so guide anymore innit?!) - Part 3

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....

The Battle Ship

Don't know if the ship is fully armed, but the HMS Belfast is just sitting around the Thames for visitors to get up close to a real battle ship....

I'm sure it's there on standby just in case anything happens!! hahhahha

London Bridge is falling down....

Finally managed to get to see the one of the more famous icons of London, the London Bridge as known by everyone in the world...except that it's not actually called London Bridge, it's called Tower Bridge.

Yesterday's weather was really nice, temperatures were about 8C, so it was fine to walk and walk and walk and walk.....we walked from Trafalgar square, to Big Ben, to the London Eye, to Tate Modern, to Shakespeare's Globe, to a pub (took a break to have beer!!), to HMS Belfast (a warship...hope i got the name correct) to London's City Hall and finally to Tower Bridge....all this is along the River Thames, so just walk walk until cannot walk anymore la...

more pictures to come.