I probably should do a post on Paris. The photos can be located here. Can't be bothered to really upload them all again, so I'll just refer to the album. Also, remember the fact that it was a day trip, and we were more interested in finishing as much of the places of interests as possible, thus we didn't go up/into any of the monuments/museums.

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Woke up in the morning at 4.45am. Already the sky was completely bright, thanks to the coming of summer. Met up with Khew Fai, Joel and the rest of the group outside of the hall. We took the tube to King's Cross/St. Pancreas' Station. Then took an Eurostar Train down to Gare du Nord Paris.

The ride itself there and back was only 2 hours, much shorter than I had expected. And the channel tunnel was really nothing much, just a tunnel.

On arrival into Paris, we were greeted with really nice weather. It was about 10am and the sun had not started to bear down on us yet. We walked out of the station and immediately got lost. We then headed down towards the Louvre in a general direction, and was finally able to procure ourselves a map on the way down from a hotel.

Upon walking on a bit more, we ended walking past a road called Rue Saint Dennis on the way to the Louvre. Just after walking past the nameless monument of Photo 1. And the sides of the streets were littered with Cinemas. Sex video cinemas. And there were also women and men outside trying to get people in. Don't think Amsterdam, think Geylang. They looked mostly ridiculous. Me and Khew Fai was absolutely shocked by something we saw, but I think that shall be as much as I would elaborate.

Thank god we walked past in the morning.

After walk out of the street, we soon reached Saint Eustache, which is photo 2. Its just a large church basically, and the Louvrewas not far from here. Walking down Rue du Louvre, we walked into the Louvre Palace(Photos 3 to 6) and past the famous glass pyramid(Photos 7, 8 and 10). And after spending a while camwhoring, we wasted no time and made our way down to Jardin des Tuileries(Photos 9 and 11), a park connecting the Lourve to Champs-Élysées. We also walked past a monument called L'Obelisque or Obelisk of Luxor(Photo 12). Apparently its actually from Egypt long long ago.

We then walked on along the first part of Champs-Élysées(Photo 14) and walked past the Grand Palais(Photo 13). Had a short lunch at Quick(Fast Food Restaurant) there, and went to the Louis Vuitton's Flagship store in Paris. Khew Fai wanted to buy a bag for his mother for her birthday, thus we spent quite a bit of time in the store.

Whilst Khew Fai was looking through wallets to buy, there was a Chinese girl that just came over, picked up one of the wallets Khew Fai was looking at, opened it and closed it in a second, and said to the counter, I'll have it.

I've never felt so poor my entire life.

Nevertheless, we then moved on to the Arc de Triomphe(Photos 15 to 21). I've always been wanting to coming to Paris, just for this. I remember when I was at Primary 5, I was addicted to the Amazing Race. And I'll still remember, that the Arc was the pit stop for the French leg of the race.

It was quite unreal to be there myself. But only the first of many.

Then, walked down Avenue Kléber down towards Trocadero and across the Palais de Chaillot(Photo 22 and 23) and towards the Eiffel Tower(Photos 24 to 26 and 30).

After the tower, we walked back towards Notre Dame along the river Seine(Photos 27, 28 and 31), passing by Palais de Tokyo(Photo 29) on the way. We soon walked past Pont Neuf and the Statue of Henry I(Photo 32). We then walked past Notre Dame and looked for a dessert shop for a break, and had some Crepés at the Brasserie Esmeralla. Fantastic. Headed back to Notre Dame(Photos 33 to 35) from there and headed back to Gard du Nord, and headed back.

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Won't be the last time I'll be going to Paris.