The next day...well woke-up at half eight got dressed, had no plans what am I going to do but still excited! That’s weird, what a odd sensation. Anyways, Arc de Triomphe and then Champs Elysees is not far away from Le Meridien the hotel where I was staying. Therefore I decided to go there on my wheelchair. By the way the streets and pavements in Paris are all wheelchair accessible but most of the roads are cobbled hence the journey on a wheelchair is not very pleasant, its very bumpy.
There, turned left from the Le Meridien Hotel, passed the huge convention centre named Palais de Congress (this is where the cardiac PCR congress was held, so my Father was there during the day and I just gallivanted the streets of Paris), then comes a huge and by huge I mean reality huge roundabout called Place de le Porte Maillot. After crossing many roads I took the second turning Avenue de la Grande Armee, then straight till the Arc de Triomphe can be seen this is on a roundabout called Avenue des Champs Elysees. Unfortunately there is no wheelchair access, only a subway (steps that go down and then up again on to the Arc de Triomphe). So once again I had to round that huge roundabout and go straight on Avenue des Champs Elysees and I was on Champs Elysees now.
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is a prestigious avenue in Paris, France. With its cinemas, cafés, luxury specialty shops and clipped horse-chestnut trees (that is what they call those square shaped-up trees that run along Champs Elysees), it is one of the most famous streets in the world, and with rents as high as €1.1 million (US$1.5 million) annually per 1,100 square feet (92.9 square metres) of space, it remains the second most expensive strip of real estate in Europe, having recently (as of 2010) been overtaken by London's Bond Street. The name is French for Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed dead in Greek mythology. The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is known as "The most beautiful avenue of the world", La plus belle avenue du monde in French.
I visited the Dior shop and got a free make-over done, went into the famous Louis Vuitton shop, Oh my God! Even a teny-tiny purse was for 200 Euros...! but how ironic, on the other side of Champs Elysees they were all these fake Louis Vuitton bags being sold on the pavement, hehehe...how very comical. One more thing I observed was that they were so many beggars on the rich and posh Champs Elesees and sadly enough all were Muslims, one could tell as they were all wearing head scarves. I have taken loads of pictures, which I shall be uploading along with my blog.
For dinner we went to this awesome seafood restaurant called ‘Café Procope’ it, is called the oldest restaurant of Paris in continuous operation. It was opened in 1686 by the Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, the address is 13 Rue de Lancienne Comédie75006, Paris they also have they own website at http://www.procope.com/ (but its in French). The food was awesome, I had onion soup (it sounds a bit weird) but it was delicious, then I ordered a chilled sea food platter, had a very peculiar taste as it had a variety of sea food prawns, cockles, different types of shell fish, etc) but I enjoyed it all. Then dessert which was something chocolaty which was really scrumptious and I loved it all J.
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