France Day 4

This is on 18th April 2010, Day 81 of my exchange: Paris walking tour

This day, JH, YW, FC, Johnny, KH and Azri went down to the meeting place of the Sandeman's Free New Paris walking tour, which was infront of the fountain at Place St Michel. We met Xiao Fan there too!

He is a common friend of FC and me, in the french double degree programme for direct masters! It was a wonderful tour by Arnaud, but i can't remember much from it since i'm blogging abt it a year after the tour. oh, one of the things was that you can tell the nature of death of a person by looking at the statue built in their memory. It depends on the no of legs of the horse which are not touching the ground!

We walked along the river saw some cathedrals, the Lourve pyramids, the park nearby, the view of the eiffel tower from the park. I came across this person dressed like a egyptian mummy, sitting on one of the park benches. I thought that was cool and went to take photos with him/her. I didn't know at that time that i had to put money into the cup infront and he/she didn't seem to mind too! lol!

We then explored some buildings nearby. Then went into the place with the tomb of Napolean. It was huge!

We then took a train down to see the arc de triumph. Some climbed up, but I didn't go up. We then had dinner at this expensive place suggested by Xiao Fan that had cheese fountain thingy that only fong chi ordered. I had salad with the complimentary bread :D and a bit of the molten cheese with potato as well!

We then went to the Eiffel tower just in time before the queue counter closed :D We managed to go up. I didn't go up all the way cos i was at the 1/3 mark and figured out that the view must pretty much be the same. And after coming down form the eiffel tower, we noticed that there were a lot of guys selling paris tower models below. Johnny and I decided that we'll be able to strike up a better deal if we approach them together. We also had an upper hand cos they were nearly done for the day! So, we got the 3 eiffel tower models and a few keychains really cheap!

We then took a train back to our Bastille apartments to sleep for the night!