Sundemans Paris Free Tour

Since my New York trip, I like the idea of free walking tour very much. Basically, you don't need to pay for the walking tour. All you need to do is to book the tour online and just turn up at the location and time specified by the walking tour organizer. The walking tour usually takes around 3 hours to 6 hours. At the end of the tour, you can just tip the tour guide. If you like the tour, then you just tip them more since they deserved it. In my opinion, all the tour guide are very professional and very good at story telling. At each interest point, they will describe the history and story behind it. From there, you save a lot of time by finding each attraction one by one by yourself. Besides that, someone are telling you the history and you just pay attention to listen to them and you don't need to do in depth research to understand it. And if you have any questions, you may just ask them and the tour guide is happy to explain it to you. By taking this walking tour, you will pass by or able to view the following places:

-View of Notre Dame de Paris
-View of the Eiffel Tower
-Napoléon’s Tomb
-Walk at Tuileries Gardens
-Assemblée National
-View of the Grand & Petit Palais
-Haussmann’s Paris
-View of the Pont Alexandre III
-Latin Quarter
-Pont Neuf
-Place de la Concorde
-View of the Champs-Elysées
-View of the Opéra Garnier
-View of the Arc de Triomphe
-Walk around The Louvre
-Palais Royal
-Musée d’Orsay
-View of Ile-de-la-Cité
-View of Les Invalides


After my hotel check-in, you go straight to this free tour. Sundemans tour offered in both English and Spanish. If possible, try to have the free tour on the day you arrive to a destination. Using the knowledge and tips that you gain from the tour, you can use it on your subsequent travelling days. The tour usually will just pass by the monument or place of interest. They will not bring you in there. If you like the place, you may enter it at your own cost and you know how to go there on other day.

Quite a number of people turn up for the free Paris tour. The waiting point is at St Michel fountain.

Paris subway signboard.

Paris Notre Dame (centre).

Such a beautiful scenery. Full of centuries old buildings.

Statue of King Henry IV. Henry showed great care for the welfare of his subjects and displayed an unusual religious tolerance for the time called a politique.

Another nice view of Paris beside Seine.

Castle like building.

This bridge full of LOVE locks.

This is what I meant. A lot.

The most visited museum in the world. Lourve. Easily recognised via the glass pyramid outside. I will tell you on the other entry on why I think this museum is not the best although it received a very high number of visitors.

You can see that Paris is not a very clean place. There are much rubbish on the street as you can see in this picture.

McDonalds also on French style building.



Nice cutting trees. You may look at the impressive trees in Château de Versailles on my future entries.

On Champ de Elysee looking towards Arc de Triomphe.

Free tour link: http://www.newparistours.com/daily-tours/paris-free-tour.html
Paris Metro station: Place St Michel. Meet at the fountain.

Goat milk spinach quiche from Boulanger Patissier @ Paris, France

During my last day of visit to Paris, I plan to have something simple for breakfast. I wake up early and walk around my hotel are to find the memorable breakfast meal. After 15 minutes walk, I found this pastry shop has many customers inside. Then their quiche must be good. I can't read French and I buy quiche by guessing.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. My chosen quiche taste is overwhelming with goat milk. But I like it very much as the strong taste wake me up! The spinach inside the quiche is tasty)
Price:6/10(Moderate. A slice of goat milk spinach quiche priced at EUR2.50).


Many types of quiche available in Boulanger Patissier.

I brought a slice of goat milk spinach quiche. The savoury taste and goat milk taste is overwhelming.

Wow, the taste of goat milk is so strong.

Boulanger Patissier shop in Place d'Italie.

GPS/Coordinate: 48.831552, 2.354372
Address: 12 Place d'Italie, 75013 Paris 13e arrondissement, France.
Public Transport: Place d'Italie station via Paris metro.

Malaysia Airlines - Kuala Lumpur to Paris (Economy Class)

After touching ground for 6 months in Malaysia, suddenly the idea of visiting the largest flower garden comes into my mind. The world largest flower garden situated in Lisse, Holland offered the best flower view in the world for almost 50 years now. Keukenhof is my favourite flower garden. Since it only open 2 months a year from end of Mar to end of May, I need to plan this trip soonest possible.

Initially, my idea is just to visit Amsterdam. But since Paris is just within 3 hours away by bullet train, I may just as well visit it. Since I am going to Paris on standby basis, my seat is not confirmed. Its quite tough to get the seat to Paris during end of April 2012 as most of the flight is full and Malaysia Airlines only have one flight a day. On my first attempt of standby, I disappointed as the flight was full and I have to go back home midnight via airport taxi. On my second attempt, I took bus to the airport and I manage to get a seat last minute as there is no show passenger. Yahoo! Anyway, this flight is really a long journey. It takes more than 13 hours from Kuala Lumpur to reach Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. The flight to Paris was pleasant without much turbulence. The meal served is just like other Malaysia Airlines long distance flight.


Since this is a ultra long haul, two full meals provided. My first meal is soy sauce chicken and vegetables with rice. Comes with raw salmon, fruits, sweets, bun and butter.

Second meal is always breakfast. My favourite selection is always their nasi lemak. Anyway, this will be my last nasi lemak and have to wait for another 11 days before I can have another nasi lemak. The croissant provided is good with butter flavour.

Finally reached Paris airport. Reached around 6.40am Paris time. I like to arrive early morning so that I have one full day. I usually opt for hotel/hostel which have luggage storage so that I can just drop my items and begin my exploration. I need to look for CDGVAL train to get to terminal 3 in order to broad RER train to Paris city centre.

Brought my ticket to Paris Nord train station. Ticket price from CDG airport to Paris city centre at EUR9.25.

Waiting for RER train. First impression is that the train is dirty :-P

Reached Paris Nord aka Gary Du Nord main train station.

Waiting for metro to reach my hotel.

Wow, when exiting metro station of Place d'Italie... My hotel is just 5 minutes walk from here. More updates later...