If you’ve glanced at my blog even once you will know that Paris is the love of my life. There’s nothing else left to say really as I’ve written many a love letter to this city. So this time I’m just sharing pics from this last trip to mon cœur.
Isn’t she lovely 😍
We also visited the gardens in Versailles, more loveliness.
No trip is complete without a visit to Gallaries Lafayette.
Paris Je t’aime ♥️
*Sidenote I take good pictures ne
After struggling on French Ticketmaster for ages (we had to Google translate the entire process) we finally got tickets to see Queen Bey in my favourite city…. Paris. 💃🏿💃🏿
The whole experience was amazing right from the day we landed and our uber driver played Beyonce for us all the way to our hotel, so good vibes all the way. My one complaint is the merch stands had run out of the “Cowboy Carter” fans when we got there 🤷🏾♀️. I did get a Cecred headscarf though🤷🏾♀️.
Saying Beyonce was AMAZING would be the understatement of the century. Vocals on point, visuals on point, choreography on point. Blue Ivy 👌🏾. The show was a feast for the ears and the eyes. It was nearly 3 hours of perfection and when JayZ came out it blew all our cowboy hats off. What a show.
Beyonce and her family put on a great show.
The metro ride after the show was a bunch of Beyhive members plotting how we can experience that again, some trying to work out how to get to Houston to see Beyonce again. We felt like the chosen ones because JayZ performed 2 songs, and you know what we were.
This is the end of my summer holiday recap. Other than the luggage drama (documented in full detail in my previous post) Paris was an absolute dream as always. Correction this time was better because this was my first summer in Paris and listen this city in summer *chef’s kiss*.
Honestly there’s not much for me to say that I haven’t already said in my other Paris posts so I’m going to share a whole lot of pictures.
Galeries Lafayette views
The view of the city from the terrace at the Galeries Lafayette is quite a site to behold.
Places we ate
Touristy Shots
Sacré-Cœur
Cheesy Shots
Yes I do have a bit of an obsession with the Eiffel Tour
As we approach a new decade I felt I should do a bit of a recap of my past 10years. So much growth happened and I also got bit by the travel bug. I started this decade as an agency producer then became an animation producer and I’m ending it as an artist manager and founder of Ofentse Management (shameless plug) but yes I have grown in leaps and bounds. I did a bit of self-searching (not sure if that’s a real phrase) over the years and I have to say travel was actually a huge part of me finding myself. I’m happiest traveling to be honest and I hope the next decade is filled with even more travel (preferably in business class universe *nudge, nudge , wink ,wink).
Ladies and gentlemen I present to you my travels through the years:
2010 London- UK
2011 New York – USA
2012: Dubai- Dubai
2013 New York, Miami, LA- USA
2014- 2015 Were clearly a dark time in my life as there was no travel during those two years LOL. Seriously though those were my transition years when I left the 9to5 grind and that’s when the soul searching began. These proved to be very crucial years for me and I’m grateful for the experience and I haven’t looked back since.
2016: Vienna, Graz- Austria
2017 Inhambane- Mozambique :
2017 Paris – France
2018 Mombasa – Kenya
And this year I returned to my favourite place in the world to celebrate my sister’s 40th birthday: 2019 PARIS once again
I’m posting twice in one week because well I haven’t posted anything in a while, my bad. Anyway as the title says my sister turned 40 and here’s what we got up to in Paris, you know touristy things for me and shopping for everyone else. Amongst the touristy antics we got up to; we trekked up and down all 284 stairs of the Arc de Triomphe so I could get my perfect shot of Paris.
Trust I took a break walking up these stairs
My perfect shot of Paris from the Arc de Triomphe(I finally got it. YAY!!!)
I didn’t take many pictures of the crew shopping so instead I will gladly share more happy-clappy- touristy shots.
Eiffel Tour
Louvre
Crepe break
Arc de Triomphe
Jardins du Château de Versailles AKA Garden of Versailles
So my sister turned 40 this year and she choose to spend it in my favourite place in the world…..Grand PARIS. So you know I was down. My first time in Paris was a solo trip so I was super excited to going back with some of my faves you know the Fam-bam.
Paris weather was a bit stank this time around but don’t get it twisted the magic is there regardless.
By now ya’ll know I hate flying so I try to be as comfortable as possible (which I never am) *sidebar my brother said I looked like an anime character
Touchdown in Paris
So once again we waited and waited and waited for the shuttle to the hotel so here’s a quick tip just take a cab or maybe try another shuttle company because Paris Shuttle was No Bueno.
Anyway back to the regular programming celebrating 40 in Paris, we checked in to our hotel, showered and hit the Champs-Elysees for supper and touristy things like navigating our metro line. The next day was my sister’s birthday so we explored the neighbourhood, lunch at Ralph’s in Paris and then we hit up BadaBoum to go check out Muzi perform.
Looking fabulous at 40 and strutting her stuff on the streets of Paris
Muzi on stage at BadaBoum
I didn’t realize it until recently but I take the cheesiest touristy pictures. And for some strange reason I am drawn to buildings, I’m lowkey an architecture groupie(very lowkey). Maybe architecture groupie is the wrong phrase actually just like taking pictures of buildings and interesting structures.
Atlantis Hotel in Dubai
The Kunsthaus Graz or the Graz Art Museum which stands out amongst the red roofs in Graz Austria.
MUMOK (MUseum MOderner Kunst) in Vienna
My Fave The Schönbrunn Palace (Vienna)
The Belvedere Palace (Vienna)
The Churches in Austria are breathtakingly beautiful
This is a ride at a theme-park in Austria, I liked it cause it looked like the cover of Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album
Flat Iron building in New York
Walt Disney Theatre in LA
This was the view from our hotel in LA (Grauman’s Chinese Theatre)
These are for my inner rockstar 😉
View from Empire State building (I told you I was a cheesy tourist)
The Quai Branly Museum, Paris
Paris Opera
Palais Royal,Paris
Flame of Liberty in Paris which is the unofficial memorial for Princess Diana
Ever since I could remember I have been drawn to Paris, but to be honest as time went by I fell in love with the idea of it more than anything else. I avoided going there over the years in fear that it would not live up to the dream, the idea I had created in my head. But since I am in the year of yes I figured oh well Ofentse its time to take Nike’s advice and JUST DO IT and boy am I glad I did.
What I did may have seemed crazy to some… going to a foreign country where you don’t speak the language all by myself. Crazy or not I did it and loved every second of it.I would like to say for the record Paris lived up to my imagination, it was whimsical quirky and cool in other words the city version of me.
I went full blown tourist out there guys as you can see from my happy snaps:
Le Palais Royal
Paris Opera
Louvre Museum
Tuileries Garden
Arc de triomphe
And I fell madly in love with the Eiffel Tower day and night.
Sacré-Cœur
The stairs leading to the Sacré-Cœur
Montmartre was a workout for sure with all the stairs and everything being uphill but I did enjoy how busy and vibrant it was.
The streets were lined with artists sketching cheesy tourists like myself.
Thank you Paris I will be back again that is for sure.
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