Paris | Sunday wandering

Yes, we simply loved Paris. How lucky were we to enjoy the Paris tour on a Sunday.

Paris was glamorous. Exploring around Paris really was an eye opener and a chance of a lifetime. The city was so elegant and colourful; purely rich in history, culture and architecture.

We loved the time spent exploring the splendid cobble-stoned streets flanked by beautiful buildings in the crisp, warm air. And not forgetting the big crowds and street plays too.

Here are random photos that I took while wandering in Paris over the weekend. We covered quite few places in a day. The traffic wasn't that bad on most parts of Paris. And we did get a sudden rain in the afternoon while we were in Lafayette.

I think I took the shots of Eiffel Tower the most. We did not go in as time consuming. But the tower itself was panoramic! Wow!

There was also some shopping done in Lafayette. We were there for 3 hours and we also took the opportunity to go to the Lafayette building rooftop for the city view.

Eiffel Tower

Triumphal arch

Notre dame

Notre dame

Notre dame

Carrousel arc de triomphe

Lourve

Palace

Seine river

Another close shot of Eiffel Tower

Street show

Along the Seine river

Box (stall) along the river

A magnificient building along the river

Place de la concorde (Concorde square)

Fountain in Concorde square

Concorde square

Umbrella up, ice-cream was cool

Shopping in Lafayette

Breath-taking interior in Lafayette

From Lafayette rooftop

Paris | Summer, scents and shopping

What is there not to love about Paris?! We were utterly amazed by the mesmerising, beautiful and mysterious city of love!

The street was packed with people, tourists-alike.

So many photographs to be posted here so I am going to break my Paris adventure into two. So this first part would be from our train station to our hotel on Saturday, day 3 of the Europe vacation.

If I thought London was warm, then Paris was hotter!! Over 35C, the hottest we felt throughout our holiday. What a crazy summer in Paris!

Everywhere you see was people and cars!! And not forgetting the well preserved historical buildings and houses on cobbled streets.

Our 1st stop in Paris was the Fragonard Perfume Museum. We got the chance to understand a little bit about perfume and smell the famous scents of Fragonard.

The next stop was every ladies' dream.  Marne La Vaile outlet for our shopping therapy. Again, the place was packed with sea of shoppers. We spent almost 3 hours there and I walked home with few new blouses. ^^

Before the shopping started, we filled up our empty tummies first. Rice and noodle! Chinese! Cannot go on without them. Lol.

Dinner on our first evening in Paris?? French 3 courses of course. That will be in another post, another day though. ^^

Weekly market mostly by the immigrants group

Loots

Tall and magnificient buildings

Tourist bus

The palace

Fragonard shop

Fragonard museum

La Vallee outlet

La Vallee

Fried noodle

Fried rice

A basket of dim sum

Bill of our lunch

House

Another house

After that we were driven to our hotel for check-in. A nice and quiet hotel tucked in the greenery lush of countryside which was about an hour drive from Paris.

Paxton Resort & Spa, Ferrieres-en-Brie

Coming up, second part of Paris.