Interrail Diaries #2

 Day 2 began with another metro trip into town, we didn’t have a particular goal today but I knew I wanted to go a vegan bakery chain and also to the Sacre-Cœur Cathedral in Montemarte. The bakery experience may have been life changing - the options were out of this world! As well as having vegan versions of every popular French pastry they also had vegan baguettes with unique fillings! We were both enthralled by the baguette situation so we got one vegan tuna and one coleslaw and vegan fried chicken baguette. Both were amazing but the tuna really had us questioning whether it was actually tuna lol. 

gonna be dreaming about these for a while…

The walk to the Cathedral was lovely, Montemarte is really beautiful and I’ve always wanted to go after watching Amelie. We ascended the many many steps and reached the top a little out of breath but the result was so worth it! The Cathedral is so intricate and otherworldly and inside was even better. We had to queue for a bit whilst this guy played Ed Sheeran songs but we were soon inside.

Unfortunately I started coughing like immediately and it was so damn loud in a silent echo-y room lol. I didn’t take many pictures because you aren’t really supposed to but I took a sneaky one of the dome. 

how did they even make something like this? 

The experience was great and i got a few things from the gift shop. We then walked around Montemarte and enjoyed the sun. And then we got a metro to the Seine and walked around outside of the Louvre which was pretty cool but I don’t regret not going inside really - it seemed quite busy. 

Other things to note from the day: Police on rollerblades?!?!, crazy vegan cheese and looking after someone’s sweet greyhound while they went shopping. Overall Paris was so great! But we move on… there’s still lots we didn’t see that I would love to go back again and revisit :)

interrail diaries #1

 Long time no blog blah blah,.. i am sad about it honestly but life can get a bit all consuming sometimes lol! Anyway, me and my bestie have been planning an interrail trip for a while and so i thought i’d write some blog posts about it ^.^! We are going for 8 days and going to 3 countries: France, Belgium and The Netherlands! 

First stop was the eurostar from London to Paris which was honestly so fast.. we played card games the whole time mainly hehe.

pointing at nothing xD

Arriving in Paris with our huge backpacks we headed to our first food stop of the trip- Cloud Cakes, which is an all vegan bakery. We navigated the metro to get there and sort of made some sense of the ticket system?

croissant!!!!

We arrived at our accommodation which was like 40 mins away from the centre and were greeted by some cute cats ^.^ the other one was really shy but this guy came to say hi!

After a relax we went to our booking at the Paris Catacombs even if we were late because a metro line was closed! The catacombs are made up of the limestone quarry’s that are all underneath Paris and exist because when the graveyards in the city were overpopulated they needed a special place to display the bones. No pics of the actual bones but trust me it is really eerie, but also quite existential. 

creepy tunnel 

Post catacombs we needed a pick me up so we headed to a Vietnamese place where i got the most scrumptious tofu curry.. i am gonna be dreaming about it for years i think!

evan got a curry pho.. also delish!

We were pretty close to the Eiffel Tower and Hotel des Invalides so we walked through the picturesque streets as the sun set. The Eiffel Tower was all lit up by the time we arrived which was so cool. It was just amazing to see it up close!

sparkly….

I was for sure so tired by this point so we headed back on the trusty metro to the accommodation and I collapsed lol. 

Have you been to Paris? What was your favourite thing to do/see? So far it’s been really fun! Sort of like london but honestly a lot nicer in some regards haha. 

Stay tuned for more updates ^.^