Well, last day of my trip (well last day of touristness, the next day I leave but we just had our breakfast and dashed to the station) it was quite a relaxed one, but nonetheless jam packed with places to explore. We were able to check out where amelie worked as well as Sacré Coeur followed by other random places (stalingrad?).
After enjoying (enjoying?) a petite dejeuner, we took our local train station (cadet) to a less tourist infested location. One of the places I was recommended in seeing was café des duex moulins, the cafe that amelie worked in. The trip was pretty funny since we came across Stalingrad (had to take a photo of that). Once out of the station we started searching for the cafe, which we eventually did. The interior was however filmed in some (yes random, the director probably literally picked a studio name from a bag) random german studio. The cafe was pretty cosy. Nothing out of the ordinary, unless you count the giant poster of amelie staring at you as if she knows one of your dirty secrets (you know the one? 
) as one. The cafe wasn’t shy of showing off the fact that it was a film location for Amelie (even though they only filmed the exterior), the giant poster aside, there were postcards of the gnome featured in the film and most importantly, “creme brulee de amelie poulin”.
I wonder what i got for dessert…
It had to be done. sorry folks. It was quite yum, Alice had a chocolate moose whilst we ordered coffee alongside that. There was a Japanese couple next to us who obviously went there for the same reason. They asked me what I ordered (because you know, you’re in Amelie’s cafe, you must order it). They did their normal tourist stuff whilst we pretty much did the minimal (I dunno, it’s not really cool when the interior wasn’t featured in the movie). We saw more tourists pop in and taking photos of them inside the cafe. After our morning dessert and coffee we paid up (the bill was extortionate) and went outside to take photos of the cafe. Pretty much after that we went next door to get a croissant haha.
Our next stop was Sacré Coeur, using our trusty map we began walking up town to find the place, we randomly bumped into Moulin Rouge. We sat around there for a bit whilst I finished off my croissant. After that we went and found some place for lunch (hungry bunch aren’t we?). We found a nice place selling baguettes and had our lunch there whilst it rained a bit. We headed off to Sacré Coeur, our final tourist place we were able to visit during our trip. We decided to enter the building first and then take photos outside afterwards (pretty much like Notre Dame). This place was quite similar to Notre Dame, however it seems like they weren’t keen on making this a tourist place. We did walk around, but didn’t take any photos. It was nice visiting cathedrals, regardless of whether you believe in religion, the atmosphere alone is clear and clean.
After exiting the building, we began take photos of the place, the sky was amazing today. Since the building was up on a hill, we also had a lovely view of Paris (another opportunity to take loads of photos 
). My camera pretty much died around this moment, I didn’t bring a charger so I just used Alice’s camera for some shots. After our photo session we went back down to our hotel to relax a bit and find some place for dinner. We arrived this station which was a lift down the hill. We assumed the lift would take us to a subway station where we can head home since it accepted the metro tickets. Little did we know the damn thing was JUST a lift. We had waste two tickets going down on a stupid lift. I would have happily walked if i knew this wasn’t a subway station. It was annoying because we were trying to minimise on the amount of tickets we used. We eventually found the station and went back to Cadet and to our hotel room. After chilling a bit we went out for dinner.
I promised Alice we’d go somewhere fancy for our last night. Our target was to find a place that served steak since the French do some pretty epic steaks. We thought this would be a walking mission since we didn’t want to go too far to find food since it’s our last night and we want to save our energy getting some sleep for tomorrow (especially Alice, travelling around Europe isn’t easy). It was really hard finding a damn French restaurant that made steak, we kept bumping into so many damn sushi places! It felt like New York all over again where the sushi bars ruled the city. We managed to bump into Hard Rock Cafe again but going to the same place twice isn’t cool for holidays. We did some more walking and found this pretty fancy place for steak. There was a combo deal on the menu that had steak and french fries for a pretty decent price. Once entering the place we realised that it was quite a fancy place. There was a piano in the far corner which was later occupied by a paid pianist (not me 
) and the seats and interior were all fancy. We were quite scared we went into a posh place that would charge you by the nose. We weren’t even sure whether the breadsticks were free or not either. We had some breadrolls to start off with. We ordered our steaks from the combo deal, Alice told me about how the French cook their steaks, and that they REALLY underdo the thing, so if you want a medium rare steak, ask for a medium! And boy was she right! The steak was nice and pink, it was juicy and succulent, nom nom. It was a really fancy meal (what with the pianist and all). Really enjoyed this place (we were comparing it to the other places and felt this was one of the best nights for dinner). I’ve noticed that the entire trip we’ve been eating out in restaurants hehe, I suppose we ARE on a holiday (well not Alice, she’s touring, but I suppose her France stop was a holiday). The dreaded bill came out and we were pretty shocked on how honest it was, the breadsticks, weren’t on the bill and it said what we pretty much hoped it was. We paid up and walked back to the hotel to digest the food and sleep.
I believe that was it for the day. The next day wasn’t so fun since it rained and we had to part ways. Alice booked her tickets on the day but her targetted train time was all full so she had to take a later one, this meant she saw me off at Gare de Nord rather than me seeing her off at Gare de L’est. We said our goodbyes and parted ways. It was amazing to have such a lovely holiday with Alice. The entire holiday was jam packed with things to do, Alice was a star in doing all the planning work. Hopefully we can go on another holiday some time this year again, Berlin maybe?
