2 Broke Girls around Paris

Years ago, me and bestie had a dream to travel around Europe together. We dreamt to take our grad school together and travel whilst. However, she went to Europe first (me left T__T). A year afterwards, she finished her school and went back to Jakarta. Me? I get to go to Europe (leaving her this time). Who knows, she actually went back to EU to travel for 3 weeks! So I decided to join with her on some trips :P. Here are the story of 2 broke girls across Europe series! ^^ Story of our dreams coming true! Why 2 broke girls? well, basically we're on a budget but decided to travel anyway hahaha... :)

Since the trip is pretty long, I decided to just put out our itinerary (combination of planned + random) and from there describe some of the story happened. :)

Germany 03/05/2016

22:00 - Megabus departing from Cologne Flughafen to Paris.
01:00 - passing Brussels

Paris 04/05/2016 (Day 1)

06:00 - Arrive at Quai de Bercy
06:00-07:00 - Got lost trying to find the Paris Metro station.
07:00 - Finally found the metro station, buy the ticket and go to the airport to pick Bestie Invi :)
09:00 - Arrive at CDG, got fined cause apparently I bought the wrong ticket. Paid 30 euro --'.
10:00 - Bestie arrive!!!! Hugs2, cerita2
11:00 - Decided to queue to buy for the metro tickets since apparently all the ticket machine in CDG is broken...
11:10 - A dude in some uniform says that the ticket has runs out, so all train to paris today is FREE! Welcome to Paris! hahahha (lucky us :P)

12:30 - Arrive in our airbnb place after got a bit lost due to being unfamiliar with Paris RER train system. (note: watch out the signage which says which station is going to pass).
12:40 - Met with Sam (our airbnb host) in her small apt. We're going to spend the night in her sofa bed in the living room. We unload some of our stuff, eat some pop-mie for lunch, rest a bit.
15:00 - Start our adventure in Paris! Going to Ecole Militaire metro station. (Note: next time find accom inside Paris! Gentily is not in Paris even though only one metro stop --')
15:10 - Eiffel! This is my 2nd time seeing eiffel, first one was together with my mom and aunt. For invi, this is her first time. Reaction towards eiffel: .... "why is it ugly?" - it's indeed overrated. It look like tiang listrik (electric pole). Didn't bother to go up the eiffel - ticket must be pricy and food there also must be pricy.

15:45 - Walking passing the Sienne river
16:00 - Arc De Triomphe! Also my 2nd time seeing this but invi's first time. We both love this more than Eiffel tower.


17:30 - walk a bit to see champ de eylleses but got lost since it's different directions. However found a 'gourmet' cafe that's not too pricey and bought some food. The guy who greet us is veryyyy friendly! lovely service, he offers us a lot of thing, including how to eat ala parisian :P. Gave us extra bread in the end.



18:00 - sit nearby the arc to enjoy dinner. Very very delicious food! they gave us mayonaise that is homemade and indeed it taste different!

19:00 - wanted to give the eiffel a second chance
20:00 - walking back to the eiffel passing lots of beautiful buildings
21:00 - found the eiffel
21:30 - eiffel lamp parade!!! soooo beautiful! yess eiffel, now you're beautiful! hehehe. Took tonsss of selfies.




22:00 - walk back to ecole militaire station with feet that is really tired.
22:30 - found carefour and bought some food for breakfast.
23:30 - arrive at our airbnb place, gotta go to the bathroom which require us to pass the host room while she's sleeping.
24:00 - Slept...

Paris 05/05/2016 (Day 2)

09:00 - woke up
10:00 - bath + packing2
11:00 - out to notre dame (prettyyyy!!)





12:00 - had lunch (yesterday groceries) while looking at the beautiful scenery of paris seine + buildings.



13:00 - took metro to the louvre
13:20 - Louvre!!! took lots of picss and this time me went to the other part of the louvre which i haven't visited before.









16:00 - realize that we gotta go back to our airbnb to take our stuff
17.30 - go back to our host but bought some groceries beforehand for our long journey to Toulouse
18.00 - went to quai de bercy (bus station), ate dinner while waiting for our bus, while watching some french jumping from one wall to another.
19.30 - go to the bus, met an american while on the way. He's going to Barcelona.
20.30 - enter the megabus to Toulouse. Took some space so that we can sleep nicer...
21.00 - Bus start to move.
21.00 -- Struggle to sleep T___T


To Be Continued to... Toulouse :)