I attended few talks, and then met two chinese girls (Wang Ying and Lily) who I knew from my colleague. Wang Ying gave talk on the day, so, I attended her talk. After that, we went for lunch together. I plan to follow their itinerary today. In the canteen, we met the two taiwanese guys (Sheng Yi and Yun Ting), and they joined us too. Lily has planned about the places that they want to visit, and she has all the info printed out. Sheng Yi is the one who find way by looking at metro line and map. I help only if there is necessity (checking once in a while that we are in the right direction). Wang Ying and Yun Ting are the followers. They don't even bother whether the direction is right, haha... I guess in a group, there shouldn't be too many planners, there has to be some followers as well, otherwise a plan won't work.
Oh Yeah, my lunch was not very appetizing that day. I chose chicken, and eventually did not even touch the chicken. It's too scary, due to its size. The best one was the chocolate pie. It's not too sweet and fits my taste bud.
We started our trip by visiting the Place de la Bastille. We took picture of it then walk to another points.
I can't remember the place in this picture (below). But, my iphone stated it in Place des Vosges.
Then below is somewhere at Hotel de Ville area. Again, I got the info from my iphone. By the way, if you happen to walk around this area, you should try the ice cream. I have it on my list (got it from a blog). It's stated as best ice cream, but then I didn't have chance to try it. I remember passing by BHV department store. Again, it's on my list, but we didn't have time to look inside.
Berthillon (Best Ice Cream)
31 Rue St.-Louis-en-l'Ile, Paris (Hôtel-de-Ville)
Notre Dame Catheral is around the area as well. All of them have been there, excluding me. So, I requested to pass by, so that I can take a picture. The conference organizer actually has arranged for a walking tour at Notre Dame Catheral in the evening on that day. I have registered for that. But, of course I didn't go eventually.:D Oh yeah, if you want to go in side the church, you may need to queue. The queue is indeed super long, and the weather was very hot. I just need to have a picture of the building.;)
From there, we take metro to another part of Paris. We enter the 18th area. So, Paris city centre is divided into different city area. The highest the area number the least safe the area is. We could see that this area is
This is the alley that we passed through. It's a bit hard to see from the picture that the road is going downhill. I took the picture when we reached the top of the street.
We saw this interesting bike hanging on the wall.
Then we arrived at a street where there are a lot of small shops with tourists around. While the two girls are busy shopping, I saw an ice cream store. I can't resist not to get one cup. They guys also joined me. I had coffee and hazelnut flavor.
We were too tired, and our legs are hurting. So all of us sat at the side of the road and take a selfie picture. Lily has a selfie stick! Hahaha... Then we asked one tourist to take a picture for us. By the way, we don't know the two guys in the picture (sitting at the back of us).
When I saw the scene of this building, I was like "Wow..." The sky is incredibly cooperating. Yes, it's indeed very beautiful.
So, from this place, we can see Paris!
After sitting for a bit, we make a move. Then we saw a metro line that bring people downhill. We used our old metro ticket, and surprisingly it worked! I know that we can use it in 1.5 hours time limit. I am not quite sure whether we have passed the time since our last metro trip.
The train is a small one (more like LRT in Singapore). It just bring us down, then we walk to another metro station. Sheng Yi suddenly remember that there is one restaurant that people have recommended. We then went and checked it out. The girls agree to have dinner first before leaving. They stay at the University area, so, they usually make sure that they can go back to the hotel early. It was 7 pm at that time.
This restaurant is famous with the salad. Actually, I realized it's not the salad, but the fried potatoes. All salads come with fried potatoes. We ordered one salad to share. Each of us ordered one dish. I ordered grilled Salmon, they all had steak. Apparently, all dishes are served with fried potatoes. I have to agree that the potatoes did taste good.
The girls like their steak, but the guys don't. The girls are not used to uncooked meat, so, they want me to tell the waiter that they want a well done steak. I misunderstood that they guys want the same. Eventually all steak was cooked, and the guys found it to be too hard. Haha, yeah... I was the one who communicate with the waiter in English.
This is typical Asians, who take picture of food before started eating them.
We finished at around 8 plus. The guys was nice to send the girls back to their hotel. I went back on my own. That's my interesting day in Paris!
Stay tune for my last day adventure in Paris...
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