Our First Paris Trip – Day 2
March 31st, 2009 by Leo
We got up early in the morning and started our day with buffet breakfast provided by Best Western. After breakfast, we visited the Notre Dame Cathedral – another famous cathedral in Europe. After the visit, we still had some time before meeting Elaine, hence we went back to Musee de Louvre to take more pictures.
We met up with Elaine and had a big lunch. The cafe that we went to was very crowded, and the food there wasn’t too special, hence we didn’t take much photos. We had a nice cup of coffee / Chocolat Viennoise though.
We spent our afternoon visiting Victor Hugo’s apartment – which is now used as a small museum displaying things related to Victor Hugo. Many people know about Victor Hugo because of Les Miserable. In fact there were old posters of Les Miserable displayed, hence we took a few photos of them.
It was Elaine’s idea to visit the graveyard of Frederick Chopin and Edith Piaf (a very famous French singer). It was a pity that we didn’t manage to reach Edith Piaf’s grave early enough, as it was a big slope to climb, and the graveyard was closing.
After the ‘mountain climbing’ we decided to head to the train station and have a quick dinner. Well, it was quick but still not too quick. We just didn’t have enough time for dessert before our train departs.
We decided to take train home instead of plane as we live very close to the train station, and the few hours that we spent on the train was a good sharing time.
It was a bit rush, but we had great fun in Paris with Elaine. We hope we would visit Paris again very soon! There are still heaps of places we did not manage to visit. Anyway, our next trip is – Vienna!