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Miss Travelette

All you would love to hear before going abroad!

I've had a few other posts about Paris previously and this post is more likely to be "my favourite places in Paris".

To be honest, there are a lot more to do in the city - you shouldn't be limiting your journey with only these following, but the ones here are the ones I recommend MOST. You can find very brief info next to every place written here, but I will write more detailed posts about most of them in the meantime.

Every destination has useful details like how to get there and opening hours and days - but I included only the métro lines that you can use as this is the best way to travel around the city (you will see the busses are all empty anyway!). If you are looking for any other means of transportation, then I would recommend you to check the web sites I wrote under every destination.

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Notre Dame by night
Gothic cathedrals and Art Deco designed churchs... All can be found in Paris. Variety is limitless. Most of them have stories, done by kings and religious people to prove victory and religious loyalty. Art can be seen all around. Very detailed figures on the façades of buildings, but especially churchs. An epic atmosphere is created by the view of all these architectural beauty. This is what Paris looks like. It makes you feel like you are wandering in the medival era, not in 2000s. Only people are ridiculous in this frame. As if all others are the true reality.

As I mentioned before, I preferred walking around to see the outsides of buildings and lovely streets before I get where I want to. This caused me to see loads of other churchs besides the ones I put on my list. But most probably you will not have much time to explore so many churchs in your limited time, so I picked up some of the most important churchs and I will include them in my blog.
Here we start with the most famous cathedral located in Paris...
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Entrance of a metro station
Transportation/ Paris (comparing to some other capitals such as London and Amsterdam) is cheap in terms of transportation. Metro is the easiest way to travel in the central city, so buses were mostly empty when I was there. Therefore, I'd recommend you to travel via metro as long as you can. One way ticket was only 1 Euro, each person needed 1 ticket to go on the same direction no matter how far it takes. So this was quite cheap indeed. Another choice here is that, you can buy a Paris Travelcard which will be much cheaper, if you will use the transportation a lot instead of walking. Besides that, there is another selection named Pariss Pass that includes easier entrance to more than 60 attractions, a free Metro Travelcard, free bus tours and a very detailed guidebook. You can purchase a card with the choices adult, teen and child and pay accordingly. The days the card will be activated also depends on your choice. For more information on Paris Pass: http://www.parispass.com/how-it-works/index.html

Metro tickets for one use
I was unaware of such opportunity when I was in Paris but as we mostly walked by foot, I did not need anything like this. If you trust your strenght, then you should definitely walk to get to places you chose as this will help you see loads of new places that you had no idea before. But yet, the Paris Pass looks quite attractive as it includes free entrance to several touristic places.What else? You can see the Metro signs that indicates there is a metro station under, so whenever you look for a station to change your destination, you can easily benefit from those signs. This is how I found the nearest stations when I was there.



A part of Paris metro map and
where the Porte de Versailles station is

I recommended you to travel via underground and one of the reasons was that, Paris metro is very easy to use; there are a couple of lines with specific colours and all you have to do is change the lines to get where you want to. No matter how many lines you change, if you are travelling on one direction, it will cost the same price, so it is quite cheap, even if you are travelling from one side to the other side of the city. Quite the opposite, if you decide to change your direction, you will have to go upstairs, leave the station, find the entrance and use one more ticket. We mostly preferred to get to the centre via metro and then walk to the places we wanted to see, as this would give us a chance to explore the city better. I'm glad we did so, and I'd recommend you to do the same. This way, you will find out very good places which are worth seeing and not on your list.

Food/ Well, I was with my family and daddy had good amount of money with him, so I didn't need to count every penny, so we preferred eating in restaurants to enjoy the Parisian Food. I think nothing special but the best thing I had eaten was Turkish Food, kebab - and this has no relation with my nationality! We tried steaks, chips, sandwiches, and many others, but one night we did not have proper time to dine and dad bought us kebab in bread. We ate them all in our hotel room to save time and rest a bit, and I swear you, I still remember the delicious taste of it! The kebab was done with chicken meat and was extremely oily, which was a nightmare for my mum who loves healthy stuff only, but yet we liked it a lot! I don't remember the name of the place but its location was very close to the metro station named 'Porte de Versailles'; an area where our hotel was. The place was quite a small one, and the owners looked like Arabics as they had a few common words with our language, which helped them to understand what we wanted. I am sure you will be able to find it if you ask people around.

Apart from that, I cannot say that I ate very good-quality food, maybe because we chose where to eat while we were walking on the street that we never knew. However, a very clear memory reminds me that after leaving the Museum Louvre, we saw a good-looking restaurant named as 'Restaurant Louvre' or something like that, and entered. We ordered ifferent kinds of meat for each person, and the food was nothing special. I remember eating unbelievably delicious steaks in London when I was a student there, and they are not even comparable, because food in Paris did not taste as good as it tasted in London. Perhaps this have something to do with our choices of restaurants, but at the end of our 6-7 days of stay, we had never come across with good food at all. Of course I need to mark that I visited the city in 2007, and within those 4 years, food might have been improved in a way.

The best thing you can do is find a place preparing sandwiches and buy some to get rid of your hunger, because this will help you save time. We spent too much time on eating which caused us to see less attractions.

I can only recommend you to eat or drink in the famous Café de Flore, as I liked the taste of their hot chocolate, but to be honest, I have no idea of how they cook at all. Despite everything, it still worths visiting this beautifully decorated historical café. I will write more about it later on, but now let's go on with the accommodation.

But... when it comes to the breakfast, I cannot say anything negative! We had our breakfast at the hotel everyday, and I swear you, I still miss that taste! French cheeses! Nutella! Croissants with butter! Salami - especially with pork, which is hard to find in Turkey! They were all so delicious that the best time of the day was the breakfast time for sure! I'd recommend you to eat croissant everyday, because they definitely know how to cook it. French cheese? Don't forget to stock some more in your baggage! I love French cheese!

And drinks... Wine in France... As most of you will know, French wine is the best! I bet you will never taste any better than theirs. Rosé has always been my favourite, and I enjoyed the French wine with every meal I ordered. Especially the hot wine was my family's favourite but I didn't prefer to drink that one as I love it cold - and hate hot alcohol! Hot wine? Grr. But I'm sure many of you will like the taste of it ;)

About the prices, see below:


 


Accommodation/ We chose a hotel with our timeshare company as a part of accommodation-change programme, and paid very little money for it (Not to mention that we had paid a lot of money to the company yeeears years ago for nothing!), and as this was cheaper than a hotel that we would choose by ourselves, we preferred staying in that one. It was in the Porte de Versailles area, which is not too close to the centre and yet not too far from it, but thanks to the easy-to-use transportation system, we had no difficulty with this matter.  But if the location is a priority to you and staying in the centre would mean you a lot, than 
you should definitely choose a hotel from the centre, though it will cost you more.



Our hotels name was 'Aparthotel Paris XV" which was not a very comfortable hotel at all when we stayed in there, but now I am surprised to see its renewed interior design when I google it! It was a bit oldish (as a result of its old furniture and windows mostly), but the staff was very helpful and very good at English, so I had no difficulty to communicate with them. - This is a very very important fact in Paris, because most of Parisians cannot speak good English and unable to help you during your journey.

Now let me show you the hotel we stayed (with its new interior design!):  http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-6786-adagio-paris-xv/index.shtml 

Good part with the hotel was: There were businessmen most since two fair buildings in the area was too close to the hotel. Therefore, there will be no teenagers who could disturb you while sleeping or so. (Not to mention that businessmen look handsome, and you can exchange glances while having breakfast at the hotel - No kidding.)
I may recommend you the most successful online booking site http://www.booking.com
I used it for my Amsterdam journey and was grateful!

For further details on Paris, keep following! 



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One of the bridges on Seine


My first blog post named `Paris Part II` was mostly based on the Eiffel Tower, which included my experiences in and out the tower, and before going on with Paris, I just wanted to mark some important points and give useful tips to the readers.
Paris is one of the hugest and busiest cities in Europe, and as a result of its size, there are countless things to do and loads of places to go. Thank God, the city has a great transportation system, especially the underground network was designed just perfect, so you can go anywhere you want in just a couple of minutes! As you will see later on, very fortunately, I managed to see the most important museums, cafés, churchs, gardens, clubs, famous streets and historical buildings of Paris, and only 6-7 days have been enough for that! Therefore, if you plan a stay for one week in Paris, I guarantee you will be able to see the most important parts of the city.
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Where to Go in Paris / Eiffel Tower

Me waiting in the queue for Eiffel
How to Get There

Use the underground, stops named "Bir-Hakeim" and "Champ de Mars - Tour Eiffel" are the closest ones to the tower. Follow the directions on the streets after leaving the underground.

As we all know, the most famous building in Paris is the Eiffel Tower. You must see the Eiffel before you die! Definitely a fascinating masterpiece, an example of creativity. Besides, it is one of the few buildings that do not give effort to stay in balance with Paris's 18th century atmosphere. Therefore, it took many negative criticism in its time. Most of the Parisians strongly supported the idea that the tower would not take any attention at all. The most important reason of this can be considered as the difference between the architecture of the city and the tower.


However, just the opposite, the Eiffel Tower which was built by Gustave Eiffel in 1889, has been seen as one of the first steps of modern art. When we consider that the tower is recalled with the city Paris most of the time, Gustave Eiffel seems to have showed us an example of success. 
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