BlUrT BuRp...: PaRIS 2008

Day 1 - 20th Feb

Left on 20th Feb at nite for my holiday/work.. i was still ill and coughing very badly..

Had dinner with sy and munky first at Red House Seafood before going home and the airport to catch our midnight flight..

It was a long 12 hour flight to Milan followed by an hour stopover then continuing our journey for another hour to Barcelona. Even someone so small like me feel so uncomfortable sitting in that small seat for more than 10 hours.. tink baby must have felt alot worse than me haha..

Before we board the plane..

On the plane.. e flight was not full so we coulf lie on the seats to sleep

SIA's inflight entertainment system..

so many shows to watch! could not resist watching a few shows before sleeping..

Day 2 - 21st Feb

We woke up on the plane and saw lots of mountains below us.. so pretty!.. finally the long journey is going to be over soon.. my knee was having cramps from the long hours of sitting..

We finally touched down at Baracelona at about 0830. but we had to take another domestic flight out to Paris and the flight was at 1400.. Another long wait..

Baby was dying for a smoke, of cos, BUT!! Barcelona Airport do not sell ciggies haha.. can u imagine how pissed and irritated he was.. After a long 14 hour flight and finally after we land, he can finally satisfy his cravings but there were no ciggies to buy..

We had lots of time to kill.. took a walk outside to enjoy the cool weather and hopefully to cool baby down haha.. but think it was worse cos everyone was smoking outside heh..

sat down for coffee.. Thsins are really damn expensive over there..

bought 2 coffee for about 4 Euros (about S$8)..

It was the machine kind of coffee but only slightly bigger

Shop around in the duty free.. see his face to black..

Had lunch and finally it was about time for our next flight.. see his forced smile haha

It was actually quite a wasted day cos we spent most of the day waiting in the airport for our flight to Paris.. When we reached Paris it was almost 4-ish already.. Heng they sold ciggies at the Paris Orly airport.. We met a cop at the airport and he taught us how to get to the metro stop where our hotel was..

I was so happy when we reached the hotel.. was damn tired and the cold weather was worsening my cough.. bought a cough mixture from the pharmacy hoping it will work.. apparently not

Day 3 - 22nd Feb

Finally our first day in Paris.. It was cold there.. temp were below 10 but living in a sunny place all year round, it was something exciting to us haha...

We decided to take a walk to the Effiel Tower.. took us about half an hour. The streets were very quiet and peaceful.. guess everyone was at work haha..

my hair is so messy due to the wind..

Getting nearer.. stopped for breakfast and coffee along the way..

Finally we have reached..

There were already many pple there queuing up to go up the tower.. Of cos we queued too.. there were many Asian tourists. esp Japanese. It costs us 11 Euros each to go up to the highest floor. The last time i was there i did not go up so i must do it this time..

It is really very very high and damn bloody cold up there..

Proof of the windiness - my hair... although it was very cold, we had to make our money's worth so we refused to come down until we could not take it haha typical Singaporeans

Quite a lousy shot of the Effiel Tower.. if u can see thats Shihao i the foregound haha

Me all wrapped up by the river... on our way to walk to the Arc de Triumph..

Took us another half an hour to walk to the Arc.. quite tiring..

there it is..

of cos we had to take a picture together there.. many of our photos are neo print shots as there is no one to take for us.. its either us or the background haha..

We took a walk down Champs Elysees (something like that), the place to be seen! and of cos to go LV haha.. saw the picture below and i had to get baby to pose with her.. but he refused to make the lao hua face haha

but he does look happy haha..

As promised to Sy, we went into LV to help her get a bag for her mom.. It was really crowded inside and mostly Jap tourists.. haha.. anyway we helped her buy the speedy monogram bag for her mom. Was only about S$750 after the tax refund! Even though its about $200+ chepaer.. i cannot bear to buy anything for myself from there too..

Had lunch at some cafe and took another long walk to the Lourve.. From the map it looks near but we walked for more than half an hour..

Taking a rest at a fountain near the Lourve.. as u can see baby is cold haha.

baby and LV..

We finally reached the Lourve.. although pictures were allowed inside, i did not wan to take any and risk spoiling all the art pieces.. The place is really huge and we had trouble finding the exit.. its quite scary to get lost in a museum..

That was all the walking i could do in a day.. took the metro back to the hotel and had dinner ard the neighbourhood..

Day 4 - 23rd Feb

Took a nice morning walk to Mountparnese.. a very nice neighbourhood.. there was a skating rink there.. how nice it would be if Singapore had winter too..

Cute baby learning how to ice skate..

baby standing outside the rink..

visited the Orsy Museum

Lunch near Orsy.. baby had beer

and i can only drink water.. was coughing really badly already..

Made our way to the Notre Dame Cathedral.. Only took pictures outside as i think its really rude to take pictures in a cathedral..

Notre Dame Cathedral

Went shopping after that as i wanted to get some presents and check out the shopping in Paris.. Was really tired as my cough was getting worse and had difficulty breathing.. Asthma i guessed.. Felt bad for dampening the holiday mood cos baby had to take care of me..

It was another sleepless and coughing nite...

Day 5 - 24th Feb

It was our last full day in Paris.. It was a very cold day.. had to put my hands in my pockets the whole walk to the train station..

The hotel recep told us we had to visit the Chateau Versatilles, a Castle in the outskirts of Paris.. so we did.. the place we wanted to go to was out of the map of the metro line.. but there were many tourists so we just followed along..

on the train..

After a very long train ride and a short walk, we reached the castle

The sky looked so blue..

There was a very long queue to go into the castle so we did not even bother queuing, we took a walk in the garden instead,, it was nicer when i visited it in Spring.. but tink baby liked it alot.. We spent half a day there strolling and siting by the lake..

I wonder how do they grow all the trees to be of the same height and cut