It is late, but I am still going to tell you about my memorable "France Trip". (PART 1)

France, it is been my childhood dream to go to this city of light. The country which is full of romance, history, and was the first country I adored during my 20 years life. I never imagined I will step my feet in this country. It is amazing! Tell you shortly, this country is seriously stick on the tradition, I hardly see the skyscraper buildings in this country. The big trees and gardens are the nicest view I saw, I rare see it in my hometown or even Malaysia. I bet your life would not complete without visiting this country. You have to come to this country!

The beautiful firmament from the plane's window

Okay, so I went France for my study trip with my course mate for 10 days. We departed from our campus, then moved to KLIA at 8pm then reach there about 10 or 11pm. We checked in and had our supper in McDonald. The excitement that I would not able to say in words. After almost half and hour we waited in McDonald and got our supper, we entered the waiting room. We would take Malaysia Arline and straight fly from KL (KLIA) to Paris (Charles de Gaulle). It took about 12 hours.

It is me in Charles de Gaulle. Look that tired face!

Well, I never had a long flight trip, and this time, it was tiring and amazing at the same time. With all the facilities (Television, headset, small pillow, and a blanket), bottomless water, juices and wine and nice airline foods. I guess it is better to pay more than suffer a lot by using budget airlines for this long trip. So after we arrived in Charles de Gaulle, we needed to wait for 1 hour to get onto the bus to bring us to the Budget hotel (F1 hotel) in Porte d'orleans. It was not I expected, it was way too small and shared bathroom. I think it will suit for backpacker and low budget type. However, it was kind of cheap, about 45 to 50 euros I guess for a night. However, this hotel is under Accor group as I remembered, so if you know the quality of Accor, I think this was not bad too. The hotel facilities are included the microwave,vending machines, and some tables and chairs in the lobby, within the hotel and inside the bed room there are wi-fi, pillow, blanket, sink in the bedroom, television, and some hangers. 

Location of F1 hotel was quite close to the nearest train and tram station, so you may walk about 5 to 10 minutes to reach the nearest train station and hop on it to get to other famous places. Do not worry, there are a lot of good foods nearby the hotel, such as Italian Restaurant, French bistrot and Cafetaria. Oh, not to forget, there is a small pastry shop that can be reached about 3 to 5 minutes walk. It is all about walk, tram, bus, bike, train in France! You have to endure it well but you will feel good with the environment and the weather. It was windy and breezy weather.

First meal I ate in Paris was in L'Olivier, it was close to our hotel and the interior is a bit attractive, I also attracted to their menu du jour and yet there were some of our coursemates sat inside, so as the first meal, I and my friends did not want to choose a wrong restaurant, and with our body language, they signed that the food was quite good. So we gave it a try. I could say, I did a wrong choice. I should not choose the menu of the day (Menu du jour) because it was not as I expected, the portion was a way too small and the language barrier was the problem too. I just reached here and I did not know what to speak to the restaurateurs, my ears have not adapt to their speed. So we just tried our best using our body language. The problem at that time, it was the last call so we needed to choose fast as the owner looked a bit annoyed because we did not understand him and he also could not understand what we tried to ask. At the end, we just choose what we think it was right. Sigh. However, the creme brulee of this restaurant was good. My friend is a fan of creme brulee and she said it is worth it! I never had the creme brulee that has the sugar crisps like this because most of the pastry shop or restaurant in Malaysia are afraid to torch the sugar until it crisps"

 So the left picture was the brisket steak that I ate, if i am not mistaken it was a brisket. You can judge it why I said it is a disappointment, cant you? It was tough and chewy too, not as I expected but one thing that I liked in France, the salad is fresh and crisp, the dressing is delicious too. I cannot get it anywhere in Malaysia. It was the thing that I missed a lot! Next picture is I in L'olivier. Well, it was my first meal in France, so there was a necessary for me to be narcissist. :P



The next picture is my dessert, If i am not mistaken it is a peach or pear meringue tart. It was very sour, tangy and sweet and I could not take it. I think I didnt managed to eat it well. Sigh.. After this photo, I just wanted to let you see the hotel surrounding and near L'olivier too. You can imagine how windy and nice the weather at that time! Oh ya! There are 2 public toilet located near the road, about 2 toilets within the distance from hotel to the train station. The funny thing, it is automatic and clean for real! I will show the pictures at the next post. In addition, there are so many dogs around the road, if you are afraid dogs like my friend, please make sure you are aware of your surrounding. They are just crazy, all around, there will be people bring their dogs to walk and play with them. Even the dogs are able to go in to the hotel or supermarket. Thank you for reading my post and sorry for my bad grammar. I keep writing to improve my English too. Merci beaucoup.. xoxo