Holga

I went to Paris with my boyfriend and we had so much trouble getting from place to place (it made it so much more fun). In trying to get to the basilica, rather than coming up the steps in the front or the tram in front we ended up approaching it from the side. To get to it we had to walk down a road called Rue de Poulet, which seemed like a huge market road. It was so crowded and we were the only white people so we stuck out like crazy, plus we were obviously tourists. When we finally found the basilica we sat in a little parklike area for a minute watching two boys kick a soccer ball back and forth in front of a waterfall. Well worth the trouble.

It was so cool to stand at the entrance to the louvre and look all the way down and see l’arc de triomphe, with all the white lights on one side and all the red lights on the other :)

My boyfriend was really really looking forward to seeing this place, and we weren’t sure how to get to it. We took the metro to approximately where we thought it would be, and we walked up the stairs and there it was right in front of us! It was such an amazing surprise :)