After 3 days in Paris, we travel to Amsterdam, our last destination in Europe for this trip. Riding Thalys high speed train, the journey is very comfortable and pleasant with nice scenery along the way and Thalys’ excellent services.

These are souvenir stores in Rue de Rivoli, selling various Paris souvenirs in reasonably good prices (can’t say cheap, given our weakening Rupiah exchange rate *sigh*). There must be lot of Indonesian tourists coming here and buying souvenirs from them, as many of them able to speak in our language! Murah.. Murah.. Lima Euro Sepuluh……

Our apartment in Paris is located nearby the Louvre Museum. This morning we took a chance to visit the famous museum. Alas, the crowd is already lining up to get into museum (see the picture above). We have to queue for about 30 minutes to get inside and buy our tickets. Inside, the situation is…

We’re finally here in Paris! But alas, different to our (mostly Elok) perception as romantic city, Paris in summer is far away from that. It is crowded, hot and a bit dirty in places. But Paris is Paris, a city where couples are in best place to be romantic, so you can see them hugging…

Time to leave Edinburgh and drive south bound back to Hazel Grove (Manchester) to return our rented car and spend another night in Dono’s house, before we continue our journey to France the next day. Thanks to Google Map with its navigation app in our iPhone, we won’t get lost on the road. It also…