Ah Paris, the city of LOVE

Magical Paris, 10-12^th August

Our 5 year anniversary was spent in romantic city of Paris!! We arrived early in the morning, and the first thing Joe and I could think of, was how to track down Pho!! Joe did his research and navigated through Paris metro system to the Viet town of Paris. The 2 restaurants on our to try list was right next to each other. We ordered and waited for our steaming bowls of pho to arrive. To our delight, it was delicious, fragrant and tasty broth, with slippery noodles and nice tasting meat with all the extra mints and sprouts.. ahhh there was silence for a while whilst we enjoyed eating and not didn’t want to waste precious eating time with talking!! After fuelling up, we were on the hunt for pork rolls (which they don’t have in London) we tracked a shop we’ve been to before down, and the best thing, it was in a proper baguette!! I was very very happy!!

Now for the site seeing, we headed up to Galeries LaFayette the beautiful department store, the interior was breath taking, Harrods is so over rated…. This is one beautiful shop!! Of course I was in heaven now, as I strolled through the huge designer shoe collections.. pity it’s so expensive, but a girl can dream! We then headed to the hotel to have a mini nap, as we’ve done it before where we just went and by 5/6pm we are dead.

In the afternoon we decided to take it easy and walk along the river and admire the gorgeous sceneries and atmosphere, I love the apartments in Paris, especially with the Juliette balconies… we decided to take a cruise down the river during twilight period, enjoying the slights from the boat cruise, great way to see the city, as we approached the Eiffel tower, it light up with lights.. it’s almost 10pm, and being the photographer Joe is, we navigated our way back to the Eiffel tower for night photos, which turned our spectacular!!

Sunday morning, we made our way to Arc De Triomphe, it’s nice just to sit there and admire the details of the monument. We strolled down the Champs-Élysées, I love it, but to Joe it’s just another shopping strip. We’ve walked the strip previously before, but I still find it magical. We made our way down to the Louvre, which we still have done yet, but I am waiting to go during winter so that there are less tourists. The stroll took a good couple of hours, and I was sad when we went to pick up our bags to make our way back to life in London. Oh well, at least I know that we will be back soon…