Day 2 in Paris

Second day began with breakfast at home, since groceries are quite cheap there, we had croissants (cheap and yummy!) with tuna (brought from Malaysia) and vegetables, the bananas are super huge and we bought that as our snack since it can get pretty tiring walking around.

We’ve decided yesterday that today’s destination will be Montmartre. Montmartre is famous for its Basilica of the Sacre Coeur, the big and beautiful church overlooking the city and Moulin Rouge with its famous red windmill. Montmartre is also famous with the artists that have worked or studied there such as Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh just to name a few. However we had quite a bad experience there, as we were stopped by a group of Africans wanting to “give” us the friendship bracelet. It was quite scary as they just interrupt you while you’re walking and there’s no way for you to actually escape them, because there’s like 5, 6 of them and they are all around you. Adam was duped 40 euros because they said we had to pay for it, and unfortunately Adam gave him a big amount of money expecting it was only 10 euro. He was pretty mad but what’s important that no one got hurt and no one lose anything. Everyone was pretty tensed after that, but decided not to let that one incident ruined our day so we proceeded with our activity, we took the tour bus (6 euro) to go round the area. It was pretty huge actually; don’t think we can cover it all by foot. We then had light lunch at one of the cafes; their Nutella banana crepe was to die for!

We were pretty pumped out that day so Adam and I decided to go visit another Paris must visit place, Musee du Lourve. The Lourve, is one of the world’s largest museum and one of historic monument in Paris. Note the word visit, unfortunately we just took our picture in front of it instead of going in, reason being, we are not artsy enough to enjoy the museum, so to spend 10 euros just to see Mona Lisa, was something we would rather not to.  

Basically it was a free and easy trip, having no tour guide and all, so we are free to go anywhere at our convenience. So after looking through the map, we decided to go to Pont des Arts, around 20 minutes away from the Lourve, where we locked two padlocks to the fence, and throw the keys onto the Seine River, as a sign of our undying love. Eceh! It was cheesy but hey, once in a while is okay.  According to what I’ve read, there are two bridges that you can pledge your love; Pont des Arts and Pont de l’Archeveche; the difference so it seems that the former is for your committed love and the latter is for your lover. Well at that time, I didn’t know about this two bridge, so we just headed to the nearest. It doesn’t matter anyway. Hehe.

And of course, we are too excited to see Eiffel Tower in real life, so we then headed to Trocadero, it was beautiful from far. It really was, it was huge and majestic and you can’t help but to feel something inside, especially when you’re with your other half. It was super cold although it was around 7 pm, so we decided to head back home instead.