Biking in Paris & THAT LV Bag!

When you're in Paris, your trip will never be complete without experiencing riding a bike around town. You can rent a bike almost anywhere and everywhere.

Here Louie is trying to figure out how to pay for our bike rentals. If I'm not mistaken, you can rent a bike for 1 euro and as long as you don't exceed two hours and will be able to find a "slot" to return it either on the same location or somewhere else, you will not be charged. You may use your debit/credit card to rent.


Here are some of the bikes for rent. Each one is parked in a "slot".


This is my rented bike. Once paid you can pull the bike out of the slot. These "slots" are scattered all over Paris, I should say. If you find one in less than two hours and slide back your bike in, your credit card will not be charged. It's free!


Here I am in front of the Invalides (that's where Napoleon was burried) pretending that I'm no amateur to this. Ha! Imagine you riding a bike on a highway with all the cars, buses and trucks a centimeter away from you speeding like their on a drag race. It's not funny. I can feel my armpits and the sole of my feet sweating from stress! Nonetheless, the experience was worthwhile.


After our "stressful" exercise, it's time to have lunch. Returned our bikes and headed to Leon's. Louie all smiles upon hearing food. THAT is music to his ears. :)


It's mussels for lunch... contemplating on what to order...


YUM! The price of this dish can already buy one sack of greenshells in the Philippines!


My sister's fave, Pomme frites!


After lunch, we needed to walk to lose some fats and saw an "auto display". I HEART this! Is this a Toyota I.Q. or something? I want one! :)


After more walking and talking, we saw the flagship of the LV Store! Tada!


Cousin dearest sent me money to buy her an LV bag. She's a baghag, I swear!


Can anyone guess what I bought for her? I meant what she asked me to buy her.


It's a GM Neverfull LV Bag - Stephen Sprouse Collection in Orange. She wanted yellow green but it was no longer available. Imagine! Not just in Paris but ALL over the world. Too bad she has to settle with this one. Hahahahaha!


That's all for now... :)

What To Do in Brussels?

On our way to Bremen, Germany, My very good friend Louie and I made a quick stop in Brussels, Belgium. We stayed at a funky four star hotel which my dear friend purchased online at a highly discounted price. I forgot the name though. When we arrived at the hotel, we were stunned to know that their walk-in rate is close to 500 euros!!!

We arrived late in the City and wasted no time looking for a place to eat. Louie trying to figure out which path to take. We were discussing whether to take the left or right road???

And we found this strip of restaurants. The biggest dilemma: Which Restaurant to dine??? Grr...

Then we found this restaurant. I forgot the name but we had their set menu for only 9.99euros! Imagine! How can we go wrong with that price? We had soup, appetizer and main course. This was a fantastic deal.

Louie, looking very happy to have his wine ahead of dinner (alcoholic? hehehehe)
Minestrone and Louie's cold shrimp cocktail with lemon butter sauce

Louie had mussels as his main course

while I had steak in white sauce: YUM!

Then it was time for dessert. I was craving for THE Authentic Belgian Waffle! On our way to buy my waffles, we saw this: Dilemma strikes again! How can we resist? Tell Me!

Then, it's waffle time! And I got what I wanted, HA! *woot* *woot*

I had Nutella while Louie had Caramel: The outer layer is crunchy and the inside is super soft and chewy. TO DIE FOR! I've been dying to have the perfect recipe to make a Belgian Waffle. Where can I get one???? I've tried some recipes online but it's not even close or maybe I'm not born to be a pastry chef at all. *sob*

Both of us suffer from "Pig's Disease". Hahaha! When we're stuffed with food we get sleepy. No more night life for us in Brussels. We went straight to our hotel and called it a night.

The following morning, we had breakfast buffet at the hotel. Yes, it came with the price we paid for.

We wasted no time and headed straight outside. We went around town and saw these lovely flowers:

And look how inviting these fresh strawberries are:

Our mouths were salivating seeing this lady dip fresh strawberries in chocolate:

The famous bronze sculpture of a little boy urinating: Manneken Pis or Petit Julien in french. This represents cohabilitation of Dutch & French in Brussels, Belgium:

A flock of tourists waiting for instructions from their tour guide:

Souvenir Shops everywhere:
This is a Mall. Look at the ceiling! Lovezit!

Our last stop was this market place:
And we are off to Bremen, Germany. I'm getting ready for four hours and thirty minutes of driving time. Goodbye, Brussels.