gai paris, oui oui!

bottom line? 3 days is not enough.

Paris is insanely beautiful, and everyone seems to know this because the theme of the city is really "to queue or not to queue". There are queues for the churches, queues for the monuments, queues for the museums, and there are even queues for the pastry shops! Ok, granted we are talking about the world famous Laduree, but still, queuing to buy cake?

Anyway, we queued - selectively.

We spent Sunday afternoon lazing under the Eiffel Tower, and at dusk decided to join the hour-long queue to ascend its tower. The queue was long, as expected, but also deceiving as once you reach the elevator (cheering for joy), you're lifted to level 2 where you are once again ushered into line to await the next elevator which brings you to the summit.

And once you arrive at the peak... to be honest? Preeeetty over-rated. Don't get me wrong, it's beautiful, but it's just another viewing platform and i much preferred lazing under the tower, gazing upward at its magnificence.











After all the waiting, the irony really was that I wanted to see the view by night, and because our queue moved to fast, we were there at 9.30pm, and in Europe, 9.30pm is light. Dammit.

The Eiffel Tower aside, we also queued for the Rodin Museum, which was well and truly worth the wait. I studied Rodin in highschool and found his sculptures incredibly sexy, especially the level of emotion and angst he can convey through the hands of his subjects. Hands. Seeing with my own eyes The Thinker, The Gates of Hell and especially The Burgesses of Calais absolutely blew. my. mind. I know, what a geek!












In our three short days, we also managed to stroll up Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe; wander through the streets of Montmartre, visit the Sacre Coeur and taking a peek in the Moulin Rouge; relax on a cruise down the River Seine; get into Laduree and Fauchon for delicious macaroons; admire in awe the brilliance of Notre Dame and Saint Chapelle; and laze by the fountains next to the famous pyramids at the Louvre.







































oh, and we ate.

Lots packed into three short days.

The next trip will be themed "to queue".