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| Sacre Coeur (Sacred heart church) |
well today was my first day in Paris and it was indeed lovely...
i reached at around 9 and then hopped metro s to reach La Defence which is in the outer regions of Paris , it is the modern part of paris...here Shwetank came to pick me up. quick background- Shwetank and Priya are my neighbours from Bangalore and they now live in Paris. so im here to stay with them fro 5 days. they are 26 - 27 and so we all get along very well.
It was the warmest welcome one can expect :) it felt just great...they were both so excited to have me and they had planned things to do and places to take me ...where and what to eat....
and when we reached Priya even asked me what i craved most so she can cook it for me :) it was incredibly sweet. btw i said dosa with coconut chutney and bhindi ki sabzi...
we sat at home and chatted till like 2..then left to the gare du Nord which has teh Indian colony...once we reach this area its like our MG road...all indian stores! jewellery to salwar kameez and saree to tamila nd hindi cd shops and blouse stitching tailors to bindi selling stores...and here and there the various vada makers...krishna something...thirupathi something...sagar something..one would thing they are all tamilians from Chennai but no..mostly Sri Lankans....
and then finally Saravana Bhavan...oh my god....it was fabulous! we had not had lunch and it was 4.30...we ate like some 10 diff varieties of dishes..and finished of with filter coffee....
i had a food baby but was in heaven and could not care less.....
finished at around 6.30...then we walked to the nearby Ganesha Temple....it was in a run down area and if we saw from outside we would not even say it was a temple...but inside was nice...
and the Lord here receives Euros..:p
so we had finished both "Pet and Puja " we headed towards La Sacre Coeur..or the Sacred Heart Church...which sat upon this lil hill facing the Eiffel Tower....
it was so pretty....we walked around and even went inside and sat for abt 15 mins....very beautifdul inside..
by 5 its night here so all this is under artificial lighting of course...and the christmas lights have gone up too which made it even prettier...
then we stared at the Eiffel tower from there for a bit...which was not too far away...it was fully lit up and looked like a dream come true....we made all the appropriate noises..:D
on the way to the metro did a lot of souvenir shopping..
next stop an area called Chatlet...this is the old paris city but has teh young crowd hanging out here. the whole place is alive with people...very very unlike Belfort where the whole city shuts down at 7. here we saw the Notre Dame De Paris...the church of Notre Dame. which looks like its top has been cut off....but very ancient and nice :p
it feels so great when all these places that ive read about in books and watched on TV and seen pictures of come to life in front of me....i keep thinking in my head " oh i saw a picture of this place in my French text book 2 years ago !! wow its in front of me !! "
we walked around in the lil cooblestoned roads and stood and watched an artist do magic with paper and spray paints...( in 10 mins...a piece of masterful art...spectacular) then sat in a cafe....till 12 then we found our way back home....
tomoro is the first sunday of the month so all big museums are free entry so we ve planned Le Louvre and another called Musee D'Orsee...the Champs Elysee after that perhaps...
but im just going along with them...for once i have nothing planned but things are going even better. today we dint plan a thing but a lot of places got covered...the touristic and non touristic kind.
oh and in the indian road so many indian supermarkets selling everything!! from Avvakai to MTR ready to eat to haldirams and Maggi ! of course i stocked up...
Belfort is some Halli !! nothing i get over there. not even green chillies. dumb place.
ok its really late..and have an early and long day tomoro!
so gnite
more later...
love
Aishu
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