Solo Dolo in Paris Part 2

After giving myself my own little tour, I made my way over to the most beautiful fountain I've ever seen. The Fontaine Saint-Michel is where i met my tour guide Anthony, who is a freelance tour guide in Paris who works for Sandemans New Europe. 

Fontaine Saint-Michel

Sandemans offers free tours all over the world, in cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona, Jerusalem and New York.

Once everyone arrived, we headed out to start our journey to discover this beautiful city.

Our first stop was the Prefecture de Police de Paris (Translation: Perfect of Police of Paris) which is where the Paris Police Academy, the embassy, Paris court of law an everything government related. It also use to be the castle where the Kings of Paris use to live.

The police Department is located right in the centre of the city on it's own island.

The next stop we made was the statue of King Henry IV, where we learned her was refereed to as the 'Good King' of France.
We also got to walk across the infamous Love Lock bridge. Surprisingly, they started to put up wood panelling against some of the railings because the weight of all the locks were starting to destroy the infrastructure of the bridge. But it was beautiful to see all the locks on it.

Then we made our way to the most beautiful museum I've seen, The Musee du Louvre. 

Even though I didn't go inside the museum, which I will leave for another trip to Paris, the outside is just as beautiful and majestic.

The attention to detail to every inch of the building is incredible, especially the famous triangle in the centre of the court yard, which is actually the entrance of the museum.

  

The sign of the Louvre meant the end of our wonderful free tour that Sandeman offered, so with my trusty map I headed out to find the the gateway of this wonderful city, the Arc de Triomphe.
The best thing I have to say about Paris, among all the previous great things I've said is that the Public Transit system is very easy to understand, even if you don't understand the simplest of French.

Once I arrived to the Arc de Triomphe, I was trying to find how to get underground to actually get under the Arc, but go lost. But nevertheless, I was able to find a group of girls to take a couple of snaps of pictures for me right in front of it.

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Solo Dolo in Paris Part 1

Finally, I have reached the city of love, and now I know why people fall in love with it.

Since i reached Paris on a Friday night, I decided to take a much needed nap unlike my fellow classmates who decided to go out on the town.

The next morning I had breakfast at our hotel the Alliance Hotel Paris Place d'Italie and decided to look at their brochures where I found a free walking tour that takes you all over the city of Paris. 

So i got dressed, grabbed my umbrella and headed for downtown Paris.

Even though it was raining the whole time i was there and it was still winter, I totally understood why Paris is one of the top travel destinations in Europe.

The first place I decided to go see before my tour was Notre Dame de Paris. 

I would advise you not to go inside, not to say that it isn't beautiful, but the line ups are really long, and next thing you know you spent the whole day waiting in line. 

But standing right in front of it does do it's justice.

Notre dame de Paris

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