Paris, The Beginning

Paris. I’ll always remember Paris, as it is our honeymoon spot, and it is actually the first time I went overseas, love it that my first time outside Malaysia (Phnom Penh does not count anyway, haha!) with Adam.

We arrived at Charles De Gaulle Airport after 12 long hour’s flight; thank god it was a night flight, as we reached Paris early in the morning so we certainly did not waste any time. After making sure Abg Yeen and the kids are okay, we went our separate ways, us to Gare du Nord where our tiny apartment is located and them to Champs Elysees.

I love the neighbourhood. The abundance of supermarket and halal food shop along the stretch, we are definitely at a safe place. There’s McDonalds like few minutes’ walk from our apartment, the central station for metro (Gare de Est) are also 5 minutes away. Our apartment was just nice for us two. I guess it’s sort of like a studio apartment as we have one bedroom, and the funny thing about that apartment was that, the toilet is separated from the bathroom. Quite funny I must say but good experience.  It was a lovely apartment by the way. It is owned by Sarah, lovely person although when we got there, we were greeted by the boyfriend (Hugo) instead. The only downside is that we have to go up 3 storeys by stairs. Haha! Thank god we didn’t have that much luggage.

After a much needed rest, we got excited to visit the supermarkets and halal food shops. We then proceed to go to Galleries La Fayette, the famous shopping malls in Paris. There it is quite interesting to note that unlike in Malaysia where both gender’s things can be found in one mall, there they separate the malls according to genders; Homme for Men and Femme for Women. But I would say the malls are small, so it’s not that tiring to go through few malls in one day.  We didn’t buy anything there, as it is only the first day and we intend to shop more at the outlets. We then meet up with Abg Yeen and the kids, and returned to Champ Elysees.

Champs Elysees is one the must go place in Paris, it is one of the most famous street and the stretch of shops, cafes, cinemas and etc. runs about 1.91 km! There, we have two famous French monuments, both at each end of the stretch, Arc de Triomphe and Place de la Concorde. We tried walking to Place de la Concorde, it seems not that far, but please do not underestimate the distance. It took us quite a while to reach there, and once there, we’re so happy we get to see the most famous monument in Paris, the Eiffel Tower although it’s like teeny weeny small. Haha.

That pretty much wraps up our first day in Paris.