This year my friend Alex and I have decided to visit Paris in a very special occasion.
This cultural-year highlight brings an opportunity to spend a weekend in September visiting an endless variety of well-known (but usually off-bounds) and outright unusual historical monuments.
I flew already on Thursday - after work with a direct Arkia flight to Charles de Gaulle. Alex came in on Friday early afternoon.
Thursday evening I went to eat in a nice small restaurant next to the Bastille square.
After that good steak-hache I felt great power on Friday morning to go around and make it to Chatelet les Halles walking all the way. There I found the FNAC I searched, and bought a Canon camera. In the afternoon together with Alex we went to participate in a guided tour in Gare de Lyon, which handles around 90,000,000 passengers a year.
There are three very interesting sites in the station:
This cultural-year highlight brings an opportunity to spend a weekend in September visiting an endless variety of well-known (but usually off-bounds) and outright unusual historical monuments.
I flew already on Thursday - after work with a direct Arkia flight to Charles de Gaulle. Alex came in on Friday early afternoon.
Thursday evening I went to eat in a nice small restaurant next to the Bastille square.
After that good steak-hache I felt great power on Friday morning to go around and make it to Chatelet les Halles walking all the way. There I found the FNAC I searched, and bought a Canon camera. In the afternoon together with Alex we went to participate in a guided tour in Gare de Lyon, which handles around 90,000,000 passengers a year.
There are three very interesting sites in the station:
- L'Horloge (The Clock Tower). The clock stopped functioning in 1999 due to a storm and it took until 2005 to rerun it.
- The wall paintings. These paintings present views of all train destinations departing from the station (in the late 19th century).
- Le Train Bleu Restaurant. This splendid place was given the name of the Calais-Mediterranée Express which had a luxury cars colored dark blue in the 1880's.
That wonderful dessert was a part of the free tour! We were just shocked.
In the evening we went to Bonfinger, a traditional French restaurant where we ate these stuff:
2 comments:
It's "le train bleu" and not "le train blue".....
maybe some autocorrection failures?
Merci Connie! Fixed the typo.
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