The long awaited reunion with Hannah in Paris finally happened this weekend and it was pretty darn great! Her and Sam made their way to Paris via the fancy Eurostar in less time than it took me to get to Bordeaux but nevertheless I met them in Paris Friday afternoon for a weekend full of fun times!
Hannah and I were both in Paris together during the summer as part of our inter rail trip and it was crazy busy, so it was so nice to see Paris at a slower pace, and with less street venders. (For more of my Inter rail Trip, see the Video below!)
We were staying in the Montmartre area of Pairs, so after leaving my stuff of we headed up to the Sacre Coeur, I swear every time those stairs kill me even more and I fully believe the lift thing should be free as that hill is just too steep. We admired the view and had a look around inside. Sacre Coeur is actually Modelled of the Cathedral in my town, which is a pretty crazy coincidence! After seeing mine so often I actually think it might be bigger and more impressive than Sacre Coeur!
We caught the metro down to Notre Dame and had a wander around there too before going to La Musée du Louvre (one of many amazing things in France that is free for EU people under the age of 26!). From there it started to absolutely bucket with rain so we called it a night and headed back to Montmartre for some dinner and drinks.
Saturday Morning Afternoon, we wandered around a flee market in montmatre and bough some jeweley before making our way to the Eiffel tower. By the time we could see it we realised that we probably wouldn’t be able to see much from the top and it wouldn’t be worth the money or the time waiting in the queue so didn’t bother. We admired from the bottom and got ourselves some lunch instead. Afterwards we went to Galleries Lafayette to see the Christmas decorations and the view from the top.
We walked the length of the Champs Elysees so that we could see the Christmas markets and it was the craziest thing I have ever seen, So many people! Périgueux has a much more relaxed Christmas market! I wanted a nice view of the skyline with the Eiffel Tower in it, and at Gallaries Lafayette you can see it but it isn’t a great view so we decided to climb the Arc de Triomphe as it is also free for us!
We had another later night walk around Montmartre, ate good food and saw pretty amazing chocolate sculptures.
On Sunday, par request by Hannah we went to the Cat café and I don’t think I have seen her more excited, easily her favourite part of Paris, And as far as Cat café’s go (this wasn’t my first one) it was a pretty good one! The cat you see on Hannah’s knee was hilarious and stole ham right of somebody’s plate! We finished the trip of by walking past the Centre de Georges Pompidou and the Hotel de Ville where we saw some prett impressive bubbles.
It was so lovely to see both Hannah and Sam again and it makes me very excited for summer plans and being back in Stirling next year!
C'EST LA VIE 