Paris Day Trip 2014.06.19

I went to Paris with my friend today. And it's amazing. 

Paris is a great city to visit just by walking, and there's also metro stations everywhere, so no worries of getting lost. 

First we gathered at Gare d'Austerliz. And then we started our trip by visiting Versailles first. We bought the Mobilis ticket for unlimited metros, trams (RER) and buses just for one day, took the RER C line to go to Château de Versailles. 

Well unfortunately, we didn't know that Versailles is such a big place to visit, so we just walked around the gardens of the château (because there's a damn long queue to enter the château). It took us around 2-3 hours, which is not really enough. Then we head back to Paris. 

Our first stop in Paris was La Tour Eiffel. It's amazing to see the tower again. I can't help but to feel amazed whenever I saw the tower. We took photos at Champ de Mars. Tons of photos. And then find the metro station and head to l'Arc de Triomph. 

From l'Arc de Triomph, we started walking towards Le Louvre via Champs-Élysées. There are tons of shops at l'Avenue de Champs-Élysées. It was actually a really long way to walk to Le Louvre from l'Arc de Triomph. Around 30-40 mins ? 

We stopped at Place de la Concorde to take a few pictures. The foutains are beautiful too. We continued to walk until Jardin de Tuileries.

 Passing the garden, we reached Le Lourve. We didn't went inside Le Lourve though (there's a long queue!). Passing Le Lourve we went to see le Pont des Arts. 

Le Pont des Arts is famous for the locks. Couples came here, put a lock on the bridge, hoping they'll always be together, and throw the key into La Seine. 

We continued walk to Shakespeare and Company bookstore. There are a lot of foreigners there, mostly from America I supposed. It's two storeys and a really antique bookstore. On the second level, there's a library where books are not for sale and people can read it there. I'm in love with that place. I just wanna stay there forever. 

After the bookstore, we went to Quartier Latin, just to stroll around and do a bit of sightseeing, take some photos. Headed to the nearest metro station and we're off to the train station to head to Bourges. 

This one day trip in Paris is great! In just one day and we've already went to so many places. La vie est belle.