To understand this post, you’ll have to go through my 1st boring post “My trip to Paris Pt 1 - At KLIA Airport”, “My trip to Paris Pt 2 - Touchdown Paris”, “My trip to Paris Pt 2.5 - Touchdown Paris” & “My trip to Paris Pt 3 - Grevin’s and Paris Central”

• 12.30pm

Waited again for the bus. This time, the wait was worst than before because of the strong winds which can blow me off my foot easily and the simple stop which has to seats and shade to keep you from the chilly wind. For the first time, I really feel freezing cold because each of the wind brings so much chills to your exposed face, ears and fingers.

• 1.15pm

At last bus came. This time, I wanted to head down Paris Central instead so I changed bus lines at Auber stop (pronounced as oh-bear). The bus lines are divided into zones which consists of the Yellow line (Montmatre, the place I’m staying at), Green Line (paris central), Blue line (bastille, where you can see more contemporary art buildings) and the orange line (montparnasse, where you can see the catacombs). Actually, I’ve always wanted to see how the ever famous Champs Des Elysees (pronounced as saw-ze-li-say) street looked like but on the way there, I got hooked on to the Notre Dame and jumped off the stop to see how it looked like from the inside.

Awed is the only word I can use to describe how the old church looked like. I wanted to buy these medal coins but since I only had 1 Euro with me and the cost was 2 Euros, I had to forgo the opportunity. Looked around and somemore and off I go. Time was running out and I quickly ran to the bus stop as soon as I saw another bus coming by.

View of Notre Dame from the front lawn

Notre Dame Door 1

Notre Dame Door 2

Notre Dame Door 3

So many pigeons right in front of Notre Dame lawn

Joan of Arc

Notre Dame Stain Glass window. Can’t take a clear shot because of the dim lights at the church

Miniature Notre Dame Side View 1

Miniature Notre Dame Side View 2

Miniature Notre Dame Side View 3

• 2.30pm

Lucikly, I did not have to wait for the bus for long and without second thought I hopped onto the bus (you know la, wait for these busses had to wait for another 25-30 minutes for one). Suddenly, I remembered I forgot to see Paris from the Notre Dame Tower! Shit, worse still, I couldn’t find for the St Sistine Chapel! Aiyah, never mind la since I had not much time. Finally, I reached Champs Des Elysees. Wow, the ever famous arch was really something but because to get a good picture of it, I had to stand in the middle of the busy street. Because of this, I had not taken the picture of this important street. Did I mention this whole stretch of road as no traffic lights at all? So in order to cross to the other side of the road, you have to just wait for a good Samaritan to stop? After getting off the bus, I saw a sign to toilet and walked in. Little did I know, this day would begin to mark as “the most expensive” day in my life. First, I had to pay 1 Euro to go into this magnificently decorated toilet where each cubicle is decorated differently and even has different smells!

A very convenient vending machine that dispenses sanitary pads, razor blades, plasters, shaving cream, deodorants, etc. First time I see anything like this in a high class toilet!

Then after walking for quite sometime, I decided that I’m hungry and get some pasta but all I could see were just sandwiches and burgers so I headed to this pub. Before that, I met a China lady which asked me if I speak Chinese and when I say I could listen a little, she told me a whole bunch of stories about LV Bags. I quickly said sorry I don’t know LV and walked off.

After that, 2 kids approximately about 10 yrs old asked me again if I understand English and as soon as I nodded my head they showed me card written something about no money nicely wrapped in plastic. I guess they “planned” to have no money and told them I couldn’t read and walked off. Finally, I decided to eat pasta at this pub which as soon as I ordered my pasta, I regretted because the place was emitting smokes and smokes of cigarettes. To make things worse, an uncle smoking cigar was puffing smokes into my face. As soon as food arrived, I was shocked to see my pasta’s only served with simple tomato sauce and baguette. This is for 10.50 Euros and my mineral water (served in a wine glass) costs 3 Euros. The most expensive pasta I ever ate because I didn’t manage to finish it and it doesn’t even have anything other than tomato sauce as its sauce!

• 4.30pm

After my late lunch, I decided to head back to the hotel because the last bus to the St Lazare was at 5.15pm. As I walked to the bus stop (which was just opposite the LV Shop), I was stopped by another China Lady that spoke really fluent English asking me to help her buy some LV handbags. She explained that because it was a duty free shop they only limit 2 per customer. Is she nuts! Of course I’m not going to help her even if she offered me money. What happens if the money’s fake? Then I think my next stop would be the Paris Police Station to see the Prada police uniforms! Even if I take it for granted that its true, I still think she’s nut. Seriously so cheap meh?

Louis Vuitton’s view from the other side of the busy Champs Des Elysees
to be continued…..