Au Revoir Paris, Ciao Rome

We say “Au Revoir” to Paris yesterday, and arrived in Rome last night at 8.40pm, after a long 12 hours train journey which involved train transfers at Basel Switzerland and Milan Italy. (Note: apparently, ciao also means hello in Italian.)

I believe you probably heard about the volcano eruption in Iceland that has caused major disruption to all the major airports in Europe. Thank goodness we have decided to take the trains and have purchased our tickets and reserved all our seats while we were in Australia. We are also glad that we have pre-booked all our accommodations.

There are long queues of people trying to get on trains because the planes are cancelled. It was chaotic! When we checked into our hotel last night, we were behind a guy who was trying to find accommodations and was advised that most of the hotels are fully booked because a lot of people are stranded due to the flights cancellation.

Anyway, here are some more photos of the glamorous Paris. The weather has been beautiful the whole time we were in Paris. Highly recommend Musee Du Louvre, Hotel Des Invalides, and Chateau de Versailles which deserve a full day each in order to explore everything properly.

Musee Du Louvre



The famous Laduree macarons. Yum!



Petite Palais- Check out the spectacular gold door




Grand Palais- Reflection of the gold door from Petit Palais across the road on the glass window of Grand Palais


Gold dome of Hotel Des Invalides

Sacre-Coeur

The overrated Moulin Rouge


Inside the palace of Chateau de Versailles

Some random homeless snowman. Awww...


Arc De Triomphe at night


Paris Statue of Liberty

This must be the 100th photo I took of the Eiffel Tower. Do you know that the Eiffel Tower "sparkles" every hour.


The last photo I took at Paris.