Paris!!! 3rd Mar

PARIS!!!
So we decided yesterday that we would go to Paris for the weekend. The train tickets had become expensive, but nevertheless, we took an early morning train. The subways in Paris are the oldest in the world, thus they are not as clean as the ones in Frankfurt or Delhi, and also look really old. But everything is very well connected. The metros and subways in Paris are not govt. owned. They are run and maintained by different companies. So if you wish to change metro routes, you might have to take long walks.

What Dad told me was very true. People in Paris are cold. On the other hand, Germans are very friendly. Wishing everyone on their way, in the lift, or in a restaurant. Paris is not like that. Being a cosmopolitan, it has people from all over the world living there. A major chunk of the population comes from Africa and some from Asia. Germany on the other hand has very few people.

On this first day, we visited Sacre coure, sacred heart (of jesus). This is the highest point in Paris. Beautiful church, got a hat and scarves from the street shopping places. Another thing noteworthy here was a square filled with local artists and their paintings. These were local artists selling their art for a charge over there. They were making portraits of people etc.

Had lunch in an Indian restaurant: Sarvaana bhavan. Trust me, the dosa and gulab jamun made me feel like in heaven. I gorged on them like anything. It was getting tough to walk after that.

We saw the Arc De Triumph, the India gate of Paris. We saw a Mercedez showroom with awesome mercedez cars, mercedez merchandise like caps, t-shirts, vanity cases, pens, folders, all for exhorbitant prices. This was on the most expensive street in Paris, the most expensive street in the world I suppose, the one overlooking the Arc de Triumph.

The weather was not the best to visit Paris, it had been cloudy and it had started drizzling by now. So we decided to see two of the most known places of Paris by night. We went to the Louvre museum and it looks beautiful at night. We headed on to the Eiffel to see it under the night sky. Forunately, by that time the clouds had dispersed a little. The tower looks amazing, standing with dignity amidst Paris. there is also a sparkling lights show (thats what I have been calling it) held every hour. If you were a watching the Eiffel from a distance as to be able to see its full length, it would seem like the tower, dazzling with yellow light all over, is now sparkling with stars, twinkling all over the tower's body. It looks just amazing. We didnt go on top of the tower, in the hope that tomorrow the weather would be better. There was a long, long, line anyways.
We ate at a French restaurant, where I ordered Crepes, thinking i would like them as much as i liked them in Bangalore. But as expected, the ones I ate earlier were Indianised, with Mango syrup fillings, chocolate fillings etc. Here there was just one veg Crepe, with plain cheese fillings. and it was not even sweet :(.