Bienvenue à Paris

Claudio and I caught the travel bug, and decided to go to Paris last weekend! Travel in Europe is quite inexpensive, and since it's our first time on the continent we figured we would check out the most cliché place first.

We took a Thursday night to Sunday morning trip.. so we didn't need to bring much. This is basically all we brought in Claudio's backpack! Those clear cubes came out of my Mary Kay travel bag, but they are so useful when traveling because you can have things separated out and can find everything so easily! 

Here are a few photos from our trip, but you'll find the majority on my Facebook page. 

We're so bad at "selfies" it's not even funny.

We went and did all the touristy things we could. We weren't there for long, and probably won't be back for a very long time, so we wanted to see the essential sites! We used visitacity.com to plan out a rough itinerary for the trip. Our itineraries for the two days are below. We actually flipped the days, skipped the Holy Chapel and the Hotel des Invalides, and rearranged many things, but that's what you're supposed to do while vacationing! Visitacity.com was actually really cool to use because it gives you a PDF with all of the activities' descriptions which was helpful when I didn't remember what was what!

Everyone keeps asking me how we liked our trip. Claudio and I love travelling around, staying in hostels and checking out cities, so Paris was very fun! But, it wasn't as "magical" as I thought. It was a fun city with cool sites, and seeing so many Van Gogh, Monet and the actual Mona Lisa was thrilling! The architecture was beautiful, but I don't have anywhere besides Dublin to really compare it to. Paris is Paris and we had to go. We also got into every single museum for free because we have Irish residency cards, which saved us about $200. quite wonderful!

I won't write a review on the entire city, because there is so many online and I don't have the time. The amount of readings that I am "privileged" to do in my master's degree definitely has consumed the entirety of my time. As a reward for reading my blogpost, you get a lovely Schmidt from New Girl GIF that describes my reading load. 

(or in my case... all year.)

Where should we go next? 

In other words, Munir, are you reading this?