Where to begin? It was busy. We walked all over. Saw incredible things. Ate incredible food... all on very little sleep. You with me? Ok good.
We woke up bright and early with every intention of going to the top of the eiffel tower. But after we were told we would wait in line for at least 3 hours we decided to start with Norte Dame... that plan quickly changed when we walked out our door and down the road only to find every street blocked for the Bastille Day parade. So instead we watched!
Literally probably 200 horses and riders of the French army. There was also a band, firetrucks, tanks, army men, jets overhead, and people everywhere... the weird thing was the crowd was silent for the majority of it... it was like no parade I've ever been too.
After that we hoped on the metro (again somehow I got put in charge of navigating... but I did it!) and headed to Norte Dame..... It is by far the most intricate building I've ever seen. The girls and I were in awe of the inside and outside. After walking through we just sat and stared... Don't be fooled by some of the pictures where we looked bored, those were intentional.... it seemed like a funny idea to look bored at really amazing places at the time...? I'm going to blame in on very little sleep and leave it at that.
Anyway... heres the good stuff.
You wouldn't believe the amount of detail that covers every inch of this place. I think I spent 20 minutes just looking at the ceiling... It really left me speechless... yes that's right. Me, the girl that never shuts up... I was speechless. I wish I could put up all the pictures and videos and I took but that would be the longest post ever, and I have much more to share!
After touring the inside we ate lunch at a cafe literally across the street from the front door. It was sunny out (even though the forecast predicted rain all weekend), we had great food, and we were sitting next to Norte Dame... seriously, I can't even begin to tell you how blessed I feel.
After lunch and nutella and banana crepes (life changing amazingness... I could dedicate a post just to nutella...but I won't) we were off the explore along the river and find the lock bridge... but of course I couldn't do that without meeting up with good ol' Ben Failinger!
He's studying in Oxford, but was in Paris so we met up and he tagged along with us for the day!... and may have also been our photographer along the lock bridge... Sorry/Thanks Ben.
The Pont des Arts... it's a bridge that crosses the Seine River in Paris where couples lock a padlock onto the bridge and throw the key into the river... well the four of us decided it would be ok to do an IES Dublin Girls Padlock... so thats precisely what we did!
After that pit stop it was back to exploring along the river, finally ending up at the Arch de Triumph....
Since the apartment was so close we made a pit stop to shower and then headed to the street where Moulin Rouge is before going to see the Eiffel Tower lit up. Moulin Rouge was interesting to see, but a quick walk down the street was enough for me... Because it was Bastille Day there were 200,000 people at the tower for fireworks so we couldn't get as close as we would have liked, but it was still pretty!
Tomorrow we'll be spending the day at the Louvre before heading back to home sweet Dublin!
Until Tomorrow...
Cheers,
Becca :)
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