♥: August 2016

Bonjour. I'm here to continue my exciting trip in Europe. First of all, let me share to you guys a cheaper transportation info to get into Paris from Venice, Italy. I did some research of taking train to Paris and this is the only couchette night train available - Thello. With €35 per pax, we own a 6-berth couchettes as we one family - six person were just nice for one cabin. In fact, if you're with only one person, you gonna share the couchette with other passengers unless you choosing a private cabin.

Well, guess what in your mind now is like 'HOW WE GONNA SLEEP AT NIGHT?' Okie because I'm also having the same thinking when I first saw the cabin in real, and you know what, we still have to squeeze our six big luggage together in the cabin together. This is really experiencing life isn't it, LOL. Fortunately we still manage to arranged our luggage well on top of shelf & under the seats.

There's two photos I search from Google of how's 6-berth couchettes look like. Don't feel surprise, this is exactly the same as in real :D Well, with shared toilet and there's restaurant in the train, it makes us feel like we are staying in a hostel instead. HAHA

A total of 15 hours to arrived in Paris Gare-de-Lyon station, train started 7.20pm from Venezia Santa Lucia station and the following day 10.20am reach in Paris. The train did passby Switzerland as well, but it's too dark out there so we can't manage to see any scene through window, we just feel cold during midnight. Something to highlight, policemen will have a quick check of passport when its around 3-4am just to make sure you're not entering the country illegally.

Tips: If you're staying with strangers, please make sure your valuable belongings is with you all the time. It's better to put em under your pillow.

Seats.

After - Turn into beds.

Well well, let's start our journey in Paris! We were staying in a 3 rooms apartment in Creteil-Universite - Paris. With owner's warmth welcome and very details showing us around, I feel so much love in Paris after a long night in train :)

Alright, kick starting our day with Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel stops as we just can't wait to see the real Eiffel Tower in real. Besides, we purchased a 2 days pass of L'Open bus to bring us to all the top attraction spots. You may check through the link to purchase the bus tickets, The bus tour is love, the handsome driver is a bonus though, lol.

Day 2 in Paris continue touring by Hop on Hop off bus. We were all the time stick to Green-line bus as it brought tourists to all the top attraction spots in Paris. Tips: There's 4 different color-line bus to let you hop on and hop off unlimited time. Make sure you're at the right bus stop & alighting the right stops to save your time.

If you wanna get to all the places that I've been as pictures on above, just follow the Green bus all the time! You won't missed out any of it :)

Day 3 - Our shopping day! Here, village meaning branded outlet in Paris, and we picked to shopping at LaVallee Village, click on the link and you will found out the way how to get to this place. It's quite far from town but it's totally worth your time paying a visit. Tips: Make sure you buying the correct train ticket, as I bought the wrong ticket to get to our destination thus we were paying penalty fee when we arrived in Val d'Europe station. Usually if taking RER it will cost more than others. If you're unsure, take out your phone and do some language translate and show to the staff at train information counter. Most of them will only answer when you're speaking their language.