Alvina en France: back frm paris, spain next week

yay-ness i finally got to visit paris... woo hooo pretty pretty quaint place with cobbled walkways, small crazy cars that dont stop at the traffic lights or zebra crossings, expensive eateries that open late into the night, a whole stretch (as long as orchard road if not longer) of sex shops. we saw dildos n strap-ons! hahaha.. damn shud haf taken a photo.. but cannot publish cos this blog is rated children friendly.. my lil cousin reads this blog ok... haha

so photos photos galore.. everyone shud visit paris someday.. the romantic city of love.. n ducks n pigeons n statues... hardly any cats or rats... dogs can take the metro too.. i bet if i brought my pet parrot to take the metro.. no one would say anything.. hahaha... shall post big big photos cos i haf damn alot of bandwidth left over from january! muahahaha...

Happily at beauvois airport waiting for our flight to spain.. unaware that it was going to be cancelled in the next 15 mins...

Ended up at Paris Hotel Des Olympaides aka budget to the max hotel.. haha.. we shared a toilet with the whole floor... but at least we had our own shower.. n in the end for 2 nights stay we paid 27.50 euros per person which i thought was pretty decent.. we just didn't have tv or hot water... but we're good cos we're out most of the day anyway!

Climbing the long ardous stairs to Sacre-Coeur (direct translation : Sacred Love -i think..).. a catholic basilica.. walked into one of their congregations.. the singing was heavenly.. the voices angelic... the whole feeling of serenity jus floods u when ur in the church.. it was so nice.. i wanna go back there again.. haha..

Sacre-Coeur!! pretty rite! its jus so stunning from the outside like a castle!

The view from outside Sacre-Coeur is absolutely stunning... we stayed till the sun set n the lights of paris came on... breath-taking...

This very loving couple is jus one of the many dotting the staircase where several people were busking and singing nice songs like John Lennon's "Let it Be"... sometimes life should be like that.. just let things be... why try to force things to be what they are not or cannot be?

We chanced upon this collage outside a shop.. guessing they do makeovers or smth... i love the photos... captured moments in time.. how nice.. i wish i could capture the good moments in my life too like that.. it'd b nice...

This is a gas station... think if i drove ard paris i probably would never have spotted it... so small so insignificant hahaah... they don't have things like Esso or Shell there... so strange hor big city like paris...

The cars here are not only small, the drivers r crazy.. they park so near to each other i sometimes wonder how they come out.. it seems the norm to bang the car infront and behind you just to get out of the lot.. don't they realise that life is a whole lot easier if they leave a larger amt of space between cars?

The entrance to one of the Metro stations... looks so gothic.. paris actually have gargoyles.. i haven seen them yet.. shall go n find the next time i am there! haha..

Arc Du Triumph.. yes it was a triumphant moment cos we bloody walked there! all the way from our hotel.. which is damn bloody far... we walked the entire porn district, past the length of a park to reach it.. n it was... well... jus a column... hahaha...

Moulin Rouge!!!! the real thing right smack in the porn district!! hahaha...i wanna go in i wanna go in.. but no money.. its kinda like we wanted to go watch a movie for the feel of it but the tickets are so costly... 9 euros (numerical figure is like singapore price but recall... its in EUROS hor...) so we forgo the experience..

This is a blur photo of a cafe called hippopotamus.. its got a really nice ambience from the outside we were so tempted to go in and have a meal but we saw the price of the food n decided to go somewhere else cheaper to satisfy our cravings hahaha... poor students on a tight budget wad to do.. we ate bread with jam for breakfast n lunch n only willing to spend on eating dinner outside cos its jus too depressing liao to have to eat bread for all 3 meals...

On the second day of being in Paris, we went to the Lourve Museum!! super nice.. they had in total 4 stories of sculptures, paintings and artifacts... we only had time for 2 floors... n that took 5 hours hor... prob going back again when i get the chance.. hee... on fridays after 6pm cos its free for etudiantes!

let this be a representative of the various items i saw in the lourve.. too many to upload liao.. will do the full set if possible, after i visit the remaining 2 floors...