Make Up Fairytales by Trisyha: September 2010

In August I went to Paris for 5 days... Finally!
I live so nearby Paris, and I never visited it, so I thought I urgently needed to go to Paris!
And so we made plans to go this summer!

We went by Thalys from Lille to Paris. From my hometown to Lille is only 15 min by train, and from there by Thalys to Paris is 1 hour. So very fast we were in Paris.

Our hotel was in the middle of Montmartre. After dropping our luggage in the hotel, we went for a walk in Montmartre and tried to see it all over there, all the nice little streets and the Sacre Coeur. After some couple of hours walking around Montmartre, we took a metro to Arc Du Triumph and walked at the Champs Elysee with lots of nice shops!

The second day we went to the Hotel Des Invalides and then further to the Eiffel Tower. It was amazing! Then we walked to Trocadero, from were we had such a nice view on the Eiffel Tower. Then we walked near the Seine to the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais. From there we walked to Place De La Concorde with the Egyptian (from the Palace of Luxor) Obelisk, to Parque Du Tuillerie, were we stopped at the water to have a look from there to the Arc Du Truimph and the Eiffel Tower. The view was sooo amazing and soo beautiful! I couldnt believe my eyes when I could see the Arc Du Truimph from over there! Amazing! We went further to the Louvre, which is so so huge! I really love the buildings of the Louvre! Beautiful! From there we made a little walk over the bridge to the Ill de la Cite (the little island) and took the Pont Neuf over the island to the other side. From there we took a walk to Des Halles with a new Shoppingcenter, in a very special building I think. We walked to the Eglise Saint Eustache and then took the metro back to the hotel.

The third day we went to Gallerie Lafayette, which is such an amazing shoppingcenter inside! It was like an Opera place inside, with lots of balconny. But in each balconny there were shops. Its so beautiful inside! After that we went to the Opera Garnier, very beautiful outside, but we didnt had the time to visit it inside. Then we walked to the Place Vendome and from there back to Des Halles and further to Centre Pompidou. Because there was some street animation we stopped here to have a look. We walked to the Hotel de Ville, which is also an amazing building, and went further to the beautiful Notre Dame de Paris. Too bad there were too many people who wanted to visit the inside of the Notre Dame. We went to the Place Henry IV to drink something, again a cosy Plaza. Then we went to the Bird Market and from there we took a metro to the Place de la Bastille, where another statue made this place beautiful. Also there was a new Opera building on that place. From there we walked to the Place des Vosges, where the house of Victor Hugo is, were we sit in the parc for a while. Lastly we walked back to the Centre Pompidou to take a metro back to the hotel.

The Fourth day we went to Père Lachaise (because my mom wanted to see it) , where we stayed some hours and visited a lot of graves : Edith Piaf, Alfons Musset, Gilbert Becaud, Theodore Gericault, Honoré De Balzac, Jim Morrisson... And after visiting Père Lachaise we went to The Pantheon, near the Sorbonne (university of Paris) and I really liked this part of the city! The Pantheon and all the buildings around are so impressive! Nearby there's the Parque Luxembourg with a castle and a lake in the middle. At the end of the day, we went to Bateaux Mouche, to take a tour by night on the Seine! For me the most overwhelming things by night are the Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower! Also nice to know is that on certain moments the Eiffel Tower starts to glitter which gave a very nice effect!