Have you ever heard anyone who is not in love with Paris?!
Judged as the most romantic city ever and one of the most famous european capitals, visited from people of all ages.
Moving aroud Paris is quite easy, thanks to the 14 different lines of the metrò and a huge number of buses.
As prices, this city is very expensive and to make the right choice about tickets, you need to know how often you will use the public transport.
If you think you will not use it so much, I recommend the book with 10 tickets; in a case of a big use of the transports I would recommend the "Paris visite", a card available for 1-2-3 or 5 days.
All the informations about prices, traffic, lines and opening times are available on: http://www.ratp.fr/
I would start our tour around the city from one of my preferite places here: Montmartre!
Once here, the best feeling is to be surrounded by millions of people around you...citizens, tourists, sellers and buskers.
Montmartre is the name of the hill and to arrive on the top of it, which is 130 metres high, you can choose to take the famous funicular or to enjoy the great view, making a little effort, and going on all the steps that lead up on the hill.
Montmartre is primarily known for the Basilica of the Sacré-coeur, but also for being the heart of all the buskers you can find here on all the streets around the church.
Many artists had studios or worked around the community of Montmartre, such as Salvador Dali, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and many more.
You can sit down and relax yourselves, have a coffee and dream to be for a while part of the cast of the movie.
Leaving behind us this wonderful world, we can walk through the streets of Pigalle, the famous red light district of the city.
Very particular place, known for all the sexy shops presents in the area but also for the world-famous cabaret "Moulin Rouge", the spiritual birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance.
Now let's walk around the most common tourist areas.
One of them, is where we can observe the Arc de Triomphe in the Place de l'Etoile, at the end of the Champs-Elysées, the heart of the shopping area in Paris, a very long avenue full of shops.
If you want to spend some money in clothes or accessories, this is the right place...here you can find everything you need!
If you are not here for shopping, you can also buy a ticket and observe the avenue from the top of the Arc de Triomphe.
The other place I really love, is where everyone needs to go at least once in life: the Tour Eiffel.
Located in the Champ de Mars, it is the icon of this city and of France, it is possible to buy a ticket and to ascend on it .
It is one of the most important tourist zone, so it is possible to find a long queue but if it is your first time in the city, I recommend to go and enjoy the view.
Notre Dame De Paris, known also as Notre Dame Cathedral, in gotic style, is located on the eastern half of the Ile de la Cité, absolutely to be visited inside.
In the meantime you can visit the area around it because, in my opinion, it is really nice.
To complete your tour of the city, I would advise you two of the most famous museums:
The Louvre musée (Louvre museum official website), known all over the world, huge museum where you can find inside very good exibitions; you need to spend here a bit of your time if you want to see everything but it deserves to be visited;
The Musée d'Orsay (Musee d'Orsay official website), built in the old station of Orsay and located in the heart of Paris on the Seine, it is a museum with an authentic charm and for your informaton every first Sunday of the month the entrance is free.
Outside the context of the tourist trip, if you want to try a very good creperie in the Montparnasse area, the best I tried is "Creperie Plougastel", the address is 47 Rue du Montparnasse.
This is a long street full of small restaurants where you can eat crepes but, in my opinion, this is a nice place, not expensive, with really friendly staff and, where of course, crepes and gallettes are really good!!!
And now, as last point of my review, I would speak about a magic place outside the city, where everyone needs to go, it doesn't matter how old you are, you will dream in Disneyland Paris.
Impossible to describe all the park inside, it is huge and every corner is absolutely amazing.
First of all, if you want to spend more than a day and to stay very close to the park, you can try one of the different hotels, all of them with one special theme.
The entrance in the park is not so cheap but, trust me, you will not regret about it.
All the information about prices, opening times and days, hotels and many more are available on the official website of Disneyland Paris.
A place full of attractions, restaurants, shops and parades of all kinds, here you will enjoy your day surrounded by Disney characters.
I would not tell you everything about this magic kingdom, test yourself to see with your eyes what I am talking about.
You will love it!
A city full of history, art, beautiful monuments and places.
Are you or not in love with Paris now?!
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." - Ernest Hemingway
With Love,
G
