Yay I got white tulips! My favouritest flowers. :)

England has the most beautiful flowers. Tulips and roses in white with pale pink. Gerberas in strawberry milk pink. Makes me happy!

Safely back in England!

Am very happy to report that I didn’t get kidnapped or mugged in Paris. I practised with Piers for hours putting on my don’t-mess-with-me face.

Looks something like this:

Yeah, Piers doesn’t do it very well. He’s just smiley all the time. So I had to make mine doubly fierce.

I think it worked. We didn’t get mobbed walking through dark alleys in the middle of the night carrying a large LV shopping bag and a small Ladurée shopping bag.

Ladurée is a luxury cake shop in Paris where the modern macaron was first created. (Before that, macarons were just single layer cookies.)

We joined the takeaway queue at the prestigious Champs-Élysées outlet and had to wait 40 minutes before we got served. There’s a separate queue for eat-in customers, which is shorter, but I suppose would also take as long since you have to wait for people to finish stoning at their tables with their expensive teas and cakes.

The queue you see here is only the outside. Inside, the queue is four times as long.

While we were waiting, we kept seeing tourists taking photos at the store window. This is the kind of thing I normally don’t like to do, but then I felt pressurised when people kept doing it and I kept thinking, “Okay, what if I don’t have a picture of me at the store window and I regret it when I’m senile and can’t remember if I was ever there or not?”

I always have to be pressurised into doing touristy stuff because, otherwise, I couldn’t be bothered.

Looks so retarded right?!!

That’s why I hate doing it.

Inside:

They don’t let you take photos of their pastries on display.

So I can only show you photos of the few things we bought. They’re quite expensive, so we didn’t buy too many things. Wouldn’t have had time to eat them all, anyway, since I really wanted to have room in my tummy for savory meals, which I prefer.

Okay, this was the first time I ever ate macarons so I can’t do a comparison, but Ladurée macarons are so very good. I was so surprised how much I liked them cos I don’t have much of a sweet tooth these days.

They’re so soft and chewy and tasty, and not too sweet! Very pricey at €10 (S$18) for eight pieces but worth trying. They have like 20 different flavours. I like rose, green apple and vanilla.

Chocolate eclair next:

I suppose a sweet-toothed person would love this. I found the top part a bit too sweet for me. The filling is a pleasant chocolate cream.

This was Piers’ choice:

I don’t know what it was. I took one bite and didn’t want it anymore because it was sooooo sweet.

I wish I had bought this very pretty-looking pastry that looked like a tart with a huge dollop of pink cream and raspberries sitting in the cream and a real red rose petal sitting on top of it. But it was about €5 (S$9) and I was afraid I wouldn’t like it or have space for it in my tummy.

I haven’t had much of a sweet-tooth in the last couple of years but being in Ladurée and looking at all the pretty pastries made me want to eat them. That’s saying quite a lot!

Certainly a must-visit if you go to Paris. It’s on the same street at the flagship Louis Vuitton store! =D

Well, Since we’re talking about LV…

Yes, I got to feel rich for a while, buying a load of stuff in the flagship store on the Champs-Élysées.

But they are all for friends, so I’m not really rich. Can’t justify paying four-figure prices for bags and wallets.

Maybe I’ll think differently if I ever get rich one day but, right now, I think Samantha Thavasa and Juicy Couture have much cuter designs and they’re a lot cheaper.

Oh, Minou told me that Samantha Thavasa just opened a store in ION Orchard. Oh no. Preparing to go broke when I return to Singapore.

Scared to go home now!!

That was probably part of the reason why I didn’t buy anything for myself in LV. Have to save my money for Samantha Thavasa! =D

So Piers was really telling the truth when he said that Parisians are always seen carrying French bread in the streets.

Sometimes the baguettes are not even wrapped up or put in a bag. People just hold them in their hands.

Yesterday, when we headed out for lunch, Piers thought we should go into a bakery, get a baguette and eat it as we walk towards our lunch destination (we were thinking McDonald’s).

When I thought about eating baguettes in Paris, I was kind of thinking either having it at home with butter, or having it at a cafe with proper sandwich fillings. I didn’t think of eating it plain in the streets.

Crazy ang mohs think of the craziest things to do.

We started eating the baguette as we walked and it was so tasty we finished the whole thing even before we reached McDonald’s (about five minutes’ walk).

It was really fun, though. You should try it if you ever come to Paris for a visit. Enjoy the sights in the streets as you munch on delicious French bread.

Bread really does taste better here, somehow.

We’re going to do it again today!

We did have McDonald’s after our baguette but it was very disappointing. So… McDonald’s Paris, not recommended.

I had a Big Mac. Didn’t taste good at all.

Piers had a Royal Bacon. It looked like this:

LOL.

Oh well, but McDonald’s has free wifi, so I still love McDonald’s.

Very nice day out today, sunny and blue skies, so I’m gonna run off now to get the most of the sun. (Woke up at noon today, omg.)

Catch ya later!

People say that Paris is the most romantic city in the world.

After spending about 12 hours in it yesterday, I am kind of wondering why. It just reminds me of London. Beautiful architecture intermingling with graffiti and dirt.

Beautiful, nevertheless. Just didn’t feel it was extremely romantic or anything.

Here’s the photo of the day.

Maybe that’s why they call Paris the City of Love. People here love freely.

It was quite a sweet sight, really. The couple was locked in that embrace for ages.

Sorry, I can only do short posts while here because we have limited time and I can’t spend five hours each day blogging (that’s how long I take to do each travel post).

Piers and I already wasted enough time by doing touristy research here when we should have done it in England before. We spent about two hours today going through guidebooks and google maps to plot a very rough itinerary for the next few days.

So silly.

Am enjoying Paris so far. Food is amazing and Notre Dame de Paris is the most awe-inspiring building I’ve ever stepped in.

Full posts when I get back!

Eiffel Tower today.

Maybe McDonald’s.

lol.

In Paris!!

I’m so in love with our apartment (rented from a nice girl through Airbnb). We did have to walk up the stairs six floors but it was all worth it. (Cos Piers carried all the luggage, lol.)

It’s so nicely decorated. Like, artistic, bohemian, lovely, um, I don’t really know what words to use to describe it. But I’ll take photos of the whole apartment another time.

Now, we have to run out and grab lunch. So hungry!

OMG Piers just said he wants to go have lunch at an Irish pub cos it’s St Patrick’s Day today. wtf.

We’ll see about that.