Our trip to Paris Day 1..Galeries Lafayette, Sacre Coeur & Eating out..

Just back from our amazing few days in Paris. We have been before and did the usual touristy sights, which were amazing and certainly needed more than a few days to tour Paris. This trip was for us to visit a favourite singer of ours Caro Emerald, a very up and coming female artist, but will do a page on her alone.

We loved walking around the busy street and doing our people watching, sitting in bars having a coffee or a Beer, and enjoying our lunches out....


We did some window shopping in Galeries Lafayette, what an amazing building. Such class. The store has 5 floors, with Balconies and spectacular 33-metre high Glass dome, 10 painted windows encapsulated in rich metallic frames and decorated in a sculpted floral motif.

The mother ship of all department stores. One of the grandest shopping complexes in the country, perhaps in the world. Galeries Lafayette's so amazing not only due to it's sheer size, but also due to the amazing collection of designers, brands and perhaps every little bit of current consumer culture available anywhere.

My purchase, a pink charm, for Breast Cancer awareness month.

Time for Coffee.

Dining out....

Eating in France is a challenge in itself due to the vast number of restaurants catering for all, from nearly every part of the world. Italian food (won't say it too loud) is my favourite food, so for lunch we decided to eat Italian. Started off with Garlic bread, then I had a Hawaiian Pizza, my favourite....delicious, washed down with a glass of red wine. Tasted delicious...

After lunch we had a walk around the shops, I did make a purchase two handbags..like I need them, but you can never have too many handbags.

Time for a quick Beer..

Much to our surprise, as we were walking around I saw this lady walking towards us with 2 other people with her....it was only Caro Emerald, the singer we have come to see in Paris... after much debating, we decided to ask her  if she would mind if we had our photo taken with her....she was lovely and agreed, with her arms around us too...a really lovely lady..

We enjoyed walking around Montmartre district of Paris...home of Basilica of the Sacré Coeur.
Construction was started in 1875 and was finished in 1914. It was built from Travertine stone.It was consecrated after the end of World War 1in 1919. An amazing Catholic Church, you feel the warmth from the building as soon as you enter, and such a calm comes over you...certainly somewhere were you could have that private moment of prayer...

Heading back to our hotel now, for a relax, shower and ready for our night out to be entertained by ...Caro Emerald..