Day 3
continues from 3 days in Paris – Part 2
Our last day started by visiting Louvre in the morning. Lucky for us, it wasn’t full of people (yet). We pre-booked for 9:30 in the morning, so we managed to see Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo etc. without too many people.
We then walked towards Île Saint-Louis, an elegant residential neighbour that is one of the two natural islands (the other is Île de la Cité), located in river Seine.
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Then we crossed the Pont Marie and headed through the Place des Vosges in Le Marais district. A perfect symmetrical square, that many consider it the most beautiful square in Paris (and one of the most expensive places to live).
It is the oldest planned square in Paris and a unique example of 17th century architecture.
Many famous people lived there such as Victor Hugo and French Aristocrat Madame de Sévigné.
Our walk continued to Le Marais district with small medieval cobblestone alleys and more pre-revolutionary buildings compared to other areas of Paris. If you want to know how it was the old Paris (before Napoleon), then this place is absolutely a must visit. It has many fashion boutiques, art galleries, trendy restaurants, bars etc. We had a coffee and a croissant along with some lunch in one of the many cafes in Le Marais.
Our last stop before our journey back to London was at the famous Champs-Élysées boulevard. A wide beautiful road that connects Place de la Concorde and Arc de Triomphe. It is great for shopping and it is also famous for its theaters.
Even though Pierre Hermé has already many boutiques across the globe, we stopped at his shop to eat some of his famous macarons. He is famous for his unique combinations of flavours and he is called by Vogue “The Picasso of Pastry”.
Paris is without any doubt one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world. My journey back to London was full of bittersweet feelings as I was already missing Paris. Hopefully, I will visit it again soon as three days were of course not enough to see everything we wanted.
We used public transport and mostly the metro for our destinations. Paris has more metro stations than London and it is very easy to move around. We bought a three-day ticket and a separate ticket to visit Versailles.
We paid 27 euros each for a 3 day metro pass and for a round trip to Versailles, was 7,1 euros each.
Citymapper helped us move around very easily. An app that we are already using in London and everywhere we go. It’s so useful that if they told me to choose only one app on my mobile, then that would definitely be Citymapper.
Not knowing French, I used the translator many times, as it is not necessarily everything translated in English. That is, the restaurant menus, some individual labels in Louvre etc.
In any way… Paris je t’aime <3
