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Okay, I'm finally going to start blogging about my trip.
First stop, Paris.
To catch the 6am flight to paris, the 4 of us, Karen, Fiona, James and I took the last public transport to the airport possible and spent the night there. Surprisingly, sleeping at the airport is quite a common thing to do as we found out looking around. (Their airport stops opeations at night unlike our Changi Airport.) They had these self check in machines for Norwegian air which we used 2 hours before our flight. baggage stickers had to be stick urself too!
Oslo Airport. bottom left: the self check-in machines
Norwegian Air, although a no frills budget air is not bad i must say. the seats were okay and it really feels like a regular airline. 2 hours later, we arrived at Paris-Orly!
Aeroview of Paris (Orly)
Flying from 1 EU country to another is like flying within the same country. No stamps on your passports, no custom checks. Its like taking a bus, a flying one.
We then had to take the airport bus to a train station and take a metro down to our first and last hotel stay through out the trip, which had a very cool spiral staircase despite it's size.
Bottom right: Gare du Lest train station. pretty huh?
First things first, we asked the very kind reception for a good and cheap place for lunch. It WAS good and FILLING. soon after, off we went to sight-see!
First stop was a small but extremely pretty cathdral, Saint Merri. Nicknamed little Notre Dame.
Honestly, i think i enjoyed it more than the famed Notre Dame. You actually get a sense of peace and tranquility here.
To our original destination, The Notre Dame.
We passed the Centre de Pompidou, full of life, buskers and colours, walked on a bridge which had a piece of artifical grass. And obviously Parisians are beach deprieved cos they called that small piece of grass as u can see on the bottom left, La Plage (The Beach). like huh? And they WERE wearing their bikinis and trucks laying right in the middle of the city! And so, we arrived at The Notre Dame.
One thing about Paris is the amount of tourists they have. And visitors to places such as the Notre Dame. Queues are everywhere and i thinkwe spent most of our time queuing up. to go into the cathedral to go up the cathedral. AND, FYI do NOT take FLASH photography INSIDE the cathedral. ARGH. it irritated the hell out of us. we would have no idea the notre dame was a religious place if we didn;t know it was a cathedral.
As a student, we get a special rate of 4.80euros to go up the Notre Dame. James and Karen weren't keen so Fiona and I went up while they sat at a stall to people-watch and wait for us. This is what they missed:
I am totally fasinated by how they got the humogous organ piano up.(2nd picture) It's HUGE. Fio and I climbed in total of 400 steps up, saw the famed Gargolyes, which i find cute. (This picture is so common you can actually google it. BUT i took it okay!) Visited Emanaul the bell. That's his front door and a picture with him, and finally climbed all the way up for the view of Paris. That small triangle is the Eiffel Tower.
Next stop, THAT small triangle.
Yes, i absolutely adore the Eiffel tower. especially when the sun goes down, which was not until almost 10pm.
Look at how long the queue was! we actually spent quite some time queuing for the tickets and our queue wasn't the one with the lift. We were going to CLIMB up the eiffel tower. Talk about vertical marathon! Luckily the tower was divided into 3 parts. level 1, 2 and 3. The highest can only be accesed by the lift. But hey, its still a damn long climb. Afterall i did just climb the Notre Dame earlier on.
As we reached the highest point of the tower, the sky darkened and the boring iron structure transformed.
I love the Eiffel Tower... AT NIGHT!
oh yes, i forgot to blog about the first meal we had outside. A HUGE meal which we had no idea what it would be until it came due to our inability to understand the meal and the waitress' refusal to tranlate anything for us. it was so filling it made we want to roll the rest of the day. at 15 euros for a lunch set, yes it was well worth it. For more details, u can check out Fiona's blog. She has all the food pictures she so obsessively took, whiping out her cam before we could dive into our course.
p.s. i cleaned my room today and.... i miss magic clean wipes!!!
Through the looking glass.
WELCOME♥
Hello my dears!
Excuse me if i dont update regularly. Currently, my location is in Norway-Oslo
and i'm using this blog as a journal or travel log as u may call it.
I hope i will be able to keep it up day to day.
Current location: USA-Yellowstone, Lake Village
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Bernice. 14 Sept.
Olav M. Troviksvei nr.12
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Places i have visited and completed blogging.
Oslo
Paris
Belgium
Amsterdam
Berlin
Bremen
London
Tromso
Copperhagen
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