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ahhh Paris the city of love....i guess

Token Eiffel Tower shot

We had a lovely couple of days in Paris zooming around under the city in the metro or walking around site seeing. We stayed at this cute colourful apartment in an artsy district a quick metro ride away from the city centre. On a sunny first day we ventured off to The Eiffel Tower, its huge. Without many tourists around we got in some good photos and Arvi even got to see some locals play football a couple of hundred metres away from the tower.

so thats how they work

 We visited houses, streets, castles, churches, bridges and more. The love lock bridge was very cool, with 1000's of locks clipped onto the metal mesh.

love lock bridge

Notre Dame was also amazing with all the stain glass windows and gothic architecture.
In Paris we also began our love affair with baguettes. They were so delicious we would eat 3 a day on average.

the Hunchback of Notre Dame 

Huge stained glass windows 

Notre Damn 

A break dancer and pianist street performing 

We caught the free walking tour the second day which took us to places that we hadn't seen yet. After a lovely picnic on the lawns of the Louvre with ham, cheese, hummus and of course 2 baguettes we ventured inside. It is huge!! We got to see the Mona Lisa front row of course, it was alright for a painting but smaller than we imagined.

Picnic nice and sunny

Mona

Mummified animals

Mummy

Leah got to see all her gross Egyptian stuff mummified mummys, cats, rats, dogs, birds and an alligator. Finally, that evening we ventured off to see the lights of the Moulin Rouge. Paris's sex shop street it should be called. Every third shop was either a brothel or sex toy shop (No parents we didn't venture into any).

Moulin Rouge