Our train to Paris is still 7 p.m! and we have to check out from our apartment in Venice @ 10 a.m. I know it's gonna be a very long day for us. Basically, we are going to stroll in Venice for the whole day before we go to Maestre station and took a train to Paris. We took a lot of a good pictures and I love to see my boys get along really well and we're really take our time to enjoy every moment of it. This is the experience one of the life time that we had with them that never repeat it again.
Time flies and we're heading to Santa Lucia just walking instead of taking water bus. The weather is perfect and the boys are so excited to take a train to Paris. This is the first experience for them to take a sleepover train. For me this is not the first time, when I was young my mom used to take me travelling from Surabaya to Jakarta with a sleepover train. I remember when I was their age, I did not quite enjoy taking a sleepover train as I don't like the idea if I have to go to the washroom and there is no compartment for ourself, I felt I have to be on guard all the time. Basically you don't feel so safe as people walking around in the train.
Anyway, we got to the train and we got one compartment just for 4 of us instead of 6 peoples. The boys sleep downstairs and the owner is on top hahahah Behind our compartment there are two washroom, one washroom with toilet seat and one washroom for brushing teeth and clean your face if you wish. I like the washroom, it's so neat and super clean basically. In our compartment, we got pillows, blanket and toothbrush. Since we've been strolling the whole day, all of us so damn tired, just want to sleep!
Finally we arrived at 9:30 a.m in Gare de Lyon - one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris. From outside looks so old but the inside is very modern train station. This train station is one of the busiest station in Europe. From this station, it takes 9 minutes to Saint Lazare from line 14 metro before transfer to line 12 to Jules Joffrin. We paid only euro 2 per person. I like this station, all the directions is very clear and easy.
Italian and Parisian are totally different in terms of dressing up. I like the way Parisian dressing up. It suits my personality as I am very free spirit but I still wanna be sassy hahaha. Travelling like a local is much better as no one see you as a tourist! The best feeling when you take a train and you can blend in well without people noticed that you're not local! Felt am so Parisian now hohoho.
Parisian loves leather jacket! Every where you see on the street, people wear leather jacket. As the weather is not too hot and not too cold as well, just perfect! Don't forget to wear a scarf! That's one of the item that you must wear as a Parisian hahahaha. The clumsy neat you're the more Parisian you're hahaha
Got to our apartment and meet the owner of the apartment. He's very straight forward kinda guy, he asked us where we are from and he said that we're already like local, hahahaha. It's so funny and make us laugh. Jules Joffrin is very close to Sacre-Coeur - a Roman Catholic church and minor Basilica. This area is kinda Brooklyn of States. It doesn't make me afraid at all to hear that even you see a lot of homeless or people asking for money, it's quite safe as long as you dress down like a local. Even you went home very late is still quite safe.
Bonnie Nuit
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