Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
Hi hi hi. Harini kite nak sambung kengkonon Travelogue kite untuk Winter Break Trip Day 4! Macam biasa, untuk sesiapa yg nak ikut sequel baca bebelan kite, boleh klik link niiii :
1. WBT DAY 1!
2. WBT DAY 2! (Taktahu nape bila click link post ni jadi gabung in 1 page with WBT Day 3, so in case dekat screen uolls dia gabung, post start in the middle hokkayh :D)
3. WBT DAY 3!
WBT Day 4 ni transitional day within Paris Day 4 and Amsterdam Day 1! Kite excited sebab ni first time kite naik intercity train and what's more exciting is we doesnt have to go through all the check points. Bukan lah taksuka, tp kadang2 terlepas pandang benda2 kecik contoh dalam pencil box ada gunting, dah kena punggah satu bag :( And some countries, kena bukak outer jackets or coats dekat tempat scan tu, mawunya dekat dalam tu pakai short sleeves kan serba salah dah jadinya.
Anyways, let's get started :D
Our Day 4 in Paris. Train scheduled at 4.25 pm. So we've got about half day more in Paris & taknak lah waste our time and soooo our Day 4 plan was..... shoppinggggg. Over tau. Takde lah shopping mana pun actually. Just some souvenirs for family etc etc.
Early in the morning, while the sky still dark blue, and the weather still icy cold (Hah over!) this three musketeers dengan gigih naik train pergi city. Rancangan asalnya nak shopping dekat Anver (spell : On Vergh) , tp disebabkan cadangan few friends & dah tahu sikit2 jalan so takdelah buang masa sosat sosat, we decided to souvenirs hunting around the street near The Louvre.
Turun-turun train, along the street dalam 10-15 mins jugaklah kami jalan, maybe sebab awal pagi lagi kooot. Most of the souvenirs shop tutupppp. Nervousss. Pukul berapa nak balik ni. Nak mengejar check out time lagi, taknak lah kena penalty en.
Luckily, there was one souvenirs shop yg dah bukak dan kedainya agak besar dan harga pun berpatutaaan. Alhamdulillah. And luckily, there was one cafe beside it yg jual macaroons dah bukak (Sebab ada org pesan so sangat excited hahah). --- No Pictures of the shop sebab tengah excited pilih souvenirs---
But I managed to snap pic box of macaroooons. I really like the chocolate flavour!
1 Euro per piece. 5 Euros for 6 pieces :D (Bergantung kepada kedai. Ada yg mahal sikit :))
The musketeers shop happily~ Hahaha
This girl was so excited. Ads full with pinkkkk.
After finished souvenirs hunting and all, again, went back to Paris Gare Du Nord, took transilien to Sarcelles-Saint Brice Sous Foret , walk back to hotel and final packing before next destination :D Check out time at 12 pm.
Btw, this is how transilien's interior looks like :) Sophisticated and cute ennnn with all the coloursss.
Hotel Premierre Classe Saint Brice Sous Foret.
ps.I need to learn how to use Panorama mode better -.-
Around 12 or something, all the 6 musketeers check out and wait for the train to again, the centre, Paris Gare Du Nord. And this was how-you-know-girls'-luggages-looks-like.
Quite fine kannnn. Takde lah berbundle-bundle ennn. Ennnn.
Arrived at Paris Gare Du Nord. Got about 3 hours until next departure. So, round-round the central stations (Ada lot of shopppps, chocolates, chocolates, chocolates, foods, bags and etc.) Dekat luar central stations pun banyak kedai; Halal Restaurants, Supermarket etc.
Take turns look out for the luggages,
Outside the station. Muka sangat happy sebab baru lepas beli Pizza yeayyyy
In front of Gare Du Nord.
So, what should we know about intercity train inside this station? Ada one big screen yg list kan train's departure, station's number etc. Check yours there and wait at the waiting room provided. Alert tau jenis train. Ada Eurostar, TGV Lyria, Thalys etc. Dan biasanya dia dah classify kan kawasan ni for one particular train, kawasan tu for that train (Thalys , Eurostar etc.)
Alert okay dengan train memasing. Kitorang macam blur2 sebab dekat screen cakap kitorang dekat station ni, tp bila tengok train's number lain pulak dengan on our booking paper. So kitorang guna kekdah logic, which is....
1. Dah pukul 4 lebih dah nak dekat boarding time,
2. station stated betul,
3. tho no. train stated lain,
4. tapi jenis nama train betul, so insyaAllah betul.
Kitorang pergi dekat no. gerabak yg dah di state dalam our booking receipt dan line up macam biasa. Alhamdulillah betul :D Tapi senang-senang, in case macam taktahu, uolls tanya je dekat orang station tu :) Dekat setiap pintu gerabak akan ada orang yg jaga. Dah masuk train simpan booking paper, bar code akan discan dalam train :)
Thalys :)
Inside train. Selesa hokkayyh. Boleh charge phone lagi tu haha *jangan lupa bawak adapter bagi charger yg 3 pins :) . Luggage macam biasa dekat compartment atas (Macam hand luggage compartment for airplane). Orang sebelah tempat duduk baik sebab tolong angkatkan bag. Thanksss
Soooo. That's for our Paris 2014's trip :) InsyaAllah panjang umur murah rezeki mana tahu jumpa lagi ke kite dengan Paris ye dok. Mana tahu dengan kekasih hati yg dah halal ke kannn , insyaAllah ameeen. Eh mihmihmih :3
Our Paris' One week pass :)
Around 8 or something, Alhamdulillah safely arrived at Amsterdam Centraal, Netherland.
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Amsterdam Centraal, credit picture to Google. Tak sempat snap pic :)
Say hello to our new pass! 72 hours GVB pass. Applicable to all GVB's trams & busses
*Ada jugak yg bukan GVB's so different rates, tp mostly inside the city, we tour with GVB's trams :)
We took tram number 2 to Leidsplein. Macam biasa turun station, blur arah mana kena pergi, lagi. Luckily, the locals were really helpful. Siap tolong Google Map lagi. Thanksss. Traffic sini kena alert sikit tau. Ada jalan untuk vehicles, trams & busses, bicycles and pedestricians.
After a few sesat-sesat scene round blocks padahal dekat je sebenarnya dengan station, Alhamdulillah we arrived at our seriously comfort hotel (Except for the narrow-long stairs, other services : thumbs uppp)
Single bed for threeee. The mattress.... empuk sangat.
Big Wardrobe. Like like like.
Pendek cerita, sangat selesa :)
Lagi 3 orang kawan stay at hotel few blocks away, near the ATM, Supermarkets & Halal Restaurants :D Lamb Chop situ sangat sedappp. Tetibe hahaha.
Anyway, that's all for WBT Day 4 :D As usual, sorry for all the grammatical & vocabs usage errors, typos and mixed languages here and there *sebab rasa lagi casual, macam cakap dekat real life. Eh
InsyaAllah till then, take care. Assalamualaikum :)