1.5 HOUR SPEED TRAIN from BRUSSELS to PARIS (+ one day in Paris!!)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Ever since moving to Europe, we have heard a lot about direct trains from Germany to Paris and we knew we wanted to give that experience a try! In this video, we made it happen, but this time we leave Brussels to head to the City of Love; Paris.
We loved being able to relax on the train and experience Paris for the first time! We all loved trying new foods and seeing iconic sites like the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and Notre Dame cathedral. Although it was a quick trip, we made some great memories with Tanner's parents.
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Lots of love,
Tanner, Risa + Willa
A loving family exploring the city of love and helping others propose to their loved ones. What could be better? The way Willa is able to express herself vocally. She's growing so fast. Her "thanks for watching, see you later..." gave me an extra smile and the perfect ending.
If you ever want to go back to Paris there are a lot of non-stop trains from Germany too! For example you can get there in 3 hours from Stuttgart or 4 hours from Frankfurt by ICE or TGV.
As someone who lives in Paris but whose family lives nearby Cologne I really appreciate the Thalys getting me home in under four hours, not always free of delays and stress, but still the speed is unbeatable!
Oh we believe it! Such a great location to live it sounds like! Stay tuned for our video on Sunday because we visit Cologne for the first time! :)
Heartwarming to see Willa changing.....delightful. Such a cutie!! Thank you for the journeys we all are able to indulge into with you. Enjoy your time with each other. Time slips away too fast....
Great video of your train trip to Paris, France. Those high speed trains are amazing. When we were in Paris, we did a boat tour on the Seine river and it was interesting hearing the history of all the ancient bridges that you go under. The Eiffel Tower was something to see and we didn't go to the top either. Thanks for sharing your travel with Tanner's parents with us.
If you are interested in long construction times of giant buildings you should definitely look up the history of the Kölner Dom. Started in 1248 and was finished in 1880, and there is a lot of story to explore for that whole period.
Just wait until our next video. :) We take you with us to Cologne!!
My husband and I had a lovely dinner at Petit Le Clar our 2nd night in Paris in 2019. The snails were amazing! What a beautiful little side street.
That sounds amazing! Happy to hear you enjoyed it 😋
For the next time visiting Paris, I highly recommend to visit the platform of the skyscraper 'Tour Montparnasse' instead of the Eifel tower. It is much cheaper, far less crowded and you'll have nearly the same view of the city.
But guess what you can see from there, what you can't see from the Eifel tower: The Eifel tower!
Grüße aus der Südpfalz!
Or L'Arc de Triomphe. Or Sacré-Coeur.
There's a saying, the best views of Paris is from the roof of Tour Montparnasse because from there the Tour Montparnasse can't be seen.
Macarons in Paris, you are all living the dream
I have to subscribe, you guys are so awesome and I enjoyed watching your video 😅
Soo kind! Thank you for watching and choosing to follow along! It means a lot 💛
I love trains just like Willa. You packed a lot into your day. Willa is so cute, live the way she holds up her food to the camera already and she was adorable at the end of the video. I really love spending time with your family 😊
You're so kind! We really love sharing our memories with you!
omg she's so cute my heart!!!
Wonderful sharing 😊😊😊😊😊
It's such a joy to see you traveling so much as family and Willa has also so much fun.
In her few years of life, she saw more places than other people in their whole life's having the same opportunities.
That's really cool 😊👍
A train offers so many interesting things to explore, that was so cute to see her!!
Ok I just say that Willa is a perfect video hostess. She can review food and close out the videos so perfectly! Have a blessed week. Thanks for a fun video your!
Aww thanks so much! She is a natural!
Wow we're impressed with the bathroom! not bad at all. We agree, you have to see the Eiffel Tower at least once!
Your little one, just lights up a room. Makes me smile, every time. Back in the 80ies, I went to the Eiffel Tower with my brother. We decided to walk up to the first platform, because it didn't look so strenuous from the bottom. Oh boy, were we wrong! By the time we got to the 1st platform, we decided to take the elevator to the others. The top platform floor is not concrete like the others but metal, and you can feel the vibrations of people walking on it. My brother had a freak out up there and hugged the wall, while I went all around and took pics. I also got a couple of cool posters for free that were put up all over Paris from Art Galleries, printed with their art on them. One was hanging on the door of a boulangerie and the exhibit dates had already passed, so the owner who happened to visit my home town in the States once a year, rolled it up for me to take home. Sometimes you just have to ask. I had them professionally framed, and they still are on my walls and look so cool. Maybe next time you can visit the Louvre and Versailles.
What a perfect idea wo have a day in Paris using the train :D very good to figure out what to spend more time on during your next visit :)
I like Paris, I’ve done all the highlights but I like Paris most for its architecture, the modern buildings, like Centre Pompidou or La Defense (Nanterre) or Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand, the old buildings, museums, churches, stations, you name it. And don’t forget the beautiful parks, I liked Jardin du Luxembourg, Jardin des Tuileries, Esplanades des Invalides, Champs de Mars, Jardin des Champs-Elysees and Bois de Vincennes. Or the broad boulevards and the university quarter. You can walk until you lost all your excessive weight or you can take public transport, especially the RER is excellent to crisscross the city. I too took the Thalys from Amsterdam Central Station to Paris Gare du Nord. The high speed train is very relaxing. There is so much to see, I haven’t seen 5% of what Paris has to offer so I have a lot of visits in the pipeline.
Willa needs her own UA-cam channel! She's so charming!
Awesome content. thank you for sharing. have a nice day!❤👍
excellent choice to do the Paris boat tour ! You can spend weeks and weeks there and you will still have missed out on lots of things.
HELLO WHAT A GOOD VIDEO WHAT AN INCREDIBLE LOOKS
Wow amazing,,,willa ist so süß.
I did the bist Tour too, Kittler escape fromm the crowded sights. Very nice Clip 🌸
Eure süße Willa sieht in ihrem neuen lila Kleidchen ganz besonders süß aus..!
There are places you have to visit and Paris is definitely one of them. It is only 4 hours by train and I haven't been there yet. But I will👍
Hey guys. LOVE your videos! If you want to see more of France, check out the Elsass, which is not too far away. Great landscape for hiking and lovely small villages with great architecture and food. I would also like to recommend to you the beautiful Bretagne! It is the most Western place in Europe and the most geourgious place, I have ever been (in Europe). Great coast, a lovely landscape, beautiful nature, but unfortunately quite far away.
Wish you all the best! Sending lots of love from Esslingen. ❤️
Hi Anna! These sound like amazing recommendations! Thanks so much, we will look into them. :)
Many thanks for this tour. So cute to see Willa, very well dressed(good on ya Tanner and Grandma) is carrying her own
backpack. Always nice to see her relation to trains. Cant remember when you have been in Hamburg and visited the Miniature Wonderland. Would be heaven for her. Well, next Christmas is coming and may be Tanner you can fullfill a kids dream and having an own train at home. Be aware, you have to share with Willa your new Märklin H0 (the metall once, not plastic) May be you will discover a new hobby you can share with your daughter.
Cute little Willa loved the train ride as usual. What you said about the tab water in the restaurants really surprised me. When we visited Paris for the last time in 2019 they only sold very expensive beverages, the prices for food were ok.
It must be strange in Ostend now that the ferries to Dover no longer operate. I took the ferry umpteen times between 1967 and 1982.
French onion soup: Use plenty of onion, 2 medium onions per person. Slice the onions and sauté in extra virgin olive oil over a very low heat for at least 20 minutes, turning constantly. Sprinkle in some salt and pepper to taste. Cover the pan so that steam builds up. Then add 600ml of boiling water and a vegetable stock gel, e.g. Knorr, and a bay leaf. Simmer the soup for 10 minutes, then add a dash of Worcestershire sauce and simmer some more. Finally, thicken the soup with a teaspoonful of corn starch mixed in a small amount of cold water. The bread and grated cheese is optional. I make this soup all the time.
Luved the video, I want ask how much it cost the trip by train from Belgium to Paris
Next stop London? You can take the train from Paris.
The one thing I couldn't get used to was when we were in Germany this summer was paying for water at each meal. On our way home we had a brief layover in Washington DC and ate our first meal back in the US at one of those terrible airport restaurants, and all we could talk about was how great the free waters was! ;-)
In many restaurants you can ask for tap water though (which is of very good quality in Germany), and they'll usually just charge a small fee for the service.
I wouldn't hang up too much on that:
Restaurants... that is always a mixed calculation, if they put free tap water on the table you pay more on other things.
In Italy for example water is free but you pay for the dishes/dishwascher. So what?
I'd always prefer to just enjoy the meal and experience. If too expensive don't go inside...
Maybe Eiffeltower is high touristic. Who cares? The tower is absolutely wonderful and a must go.
Agreed!
The trains are called Eurostar now, following the merger with the Eurostar company that operates trains from/to London.
😂😂😂 Tanner “ we seen the Eifel tower we can go home now “ Brilliant .
Aww Hearing Willa taking its just so cute 🥰
Yes i liked Thalys &Eurostar. Done Amsterdam to London( trip to london i had to step over in Belguim midi) that was an adventure ( delays due to
Coming back i had the straight Trein St Pancras to Amsterdam .
Was a very relaxing. Journey coming back .😜
I never Been to Paris don’t know why Maybe because its so busy 🤷♀️.
Lovely you had the day out with your in-laws was lovely to see them .
How long are they over for ?
Have a Good weekend 🥰
As always, thank you for posting. What is 90 degrees? No celcius? A conversion would be appreciated for the rest of the world.
90°F = ~ 32°C
It is simple: 32 is 0, add or sub 18 for every 10C
@@TheAlexkor Why should I? The whole world uses Celsius and English. We have the good manners to use English; you can have the good manners to post Celsius at the bottom.
Nice trip! Do you have one of the German major cities on your itinerary as well? Like Berlin, Hamburg or Munich?
The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889 for the world exhibition. It was supposed to be demolished afterwards, but a radio station was installed beforehand. The tower remained standing and can be used as a lookout tower ever since.
Have you discovered the Statues of Liberty in Paris?
There are five of them in different sizes in Paris. The sixth and largest was given to New York by France.
The inner framework of the Statue of Liberty in New York was also designed by Mr. Eiffel.
The smaller statues in Paris always served the artist Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi to build an even larger statue until the largest was finished.
Notre Dame, the entire roof was held together by lead. But the lead melted during the fire and had to be laboriously removed. Aspetos was not yet known in the Middle Ages.
A whole forest of thick oak trees is needed for the new construction of the roof structure. Trees that are sought throughout Europe because they are rare.
Next time you visit Paris don't bother to go on top of the Eiffel Tower because you get only half the view of the city. Instead go on top of the Tour Montparnasse, a 210 m high skyscraper. From there you have the perfect view of Paris with the Eifel Tower and all the other amazing buildings and parks. It's 15 Euro per Person but totally worth it. And since you are from the USA a little fun fact... There are 5 Statues of Liberty in Paris that look just like the one in New York: two in museums, one in a park, one on a small island in the Seine and one as a figurehead on a boat close to the Eiffel Tower.
Yes, and plan your visit on the tower around nightfall so that you can enjoy the view and orient yourselves during daylight and then watch the lights going on everywhere.
Which station did you guys take, in Belgium and which station did you stop at?
Brussels to paris! :)
@@OurStorytoTell thank you. But what I meant was the names of the stations. 😅 ty.
@@OurStorytoTell They travelled from Brussels Zuid (Brussels South). Don't know what station in Paris they arrived at.
how much was the train?
How to get to eiffel tower cheapest from the train station in paris?
Correction Brussels to Paris is 1h20 minutes
Hey ,if We have a Photocopy of our Passport and stamp visa ,and I have original Driving licence from India , So ,Do I need to carry the Orignal Passport in hand with me , From Paris to Brussels OR photocopy is fine in thalys and in Brussels????
Was already 2 times in Paris and find the city totally overrated and very expensive. Have a nice time
I have been there a lot of times and i wouldn't say the city is overrated. But it is a very dirty city compared to other places in Europe. And yes, like many other big cites in the nort-western part of Europe it is quite expensive. But in comparison to for example Oslo it is quite cheap. ;-) For sure there are nicer big cities in the world than Paris.
I would recommend Budapest, Vienna (Wien), Prague, Munich (München), Montevideo or Buenos Aires.
I’ve been to Paris dozens of times and it’s not a city that will reveal its graces to people who won’t make an effort. So if you go there unprepared to give ratings, you’re wasting your time.
Agree completely .. totally overrated
@@Lamesoeder very dirty ? Yes if you visit Paris during summer and if there is a water ban, no streets wash allowed.
Personally I experimented London u U tube, was dirtier ( small stations) than Paris !
Paris isn't only the famous Eiffel tower, Louvre... There good unknown surprises everywhere.
And remember that it's not a whole outside museum, people are living, working here !
Yes I known there more tourists than Parisians !
Absolutly agree
Did you see the (original) statue of Liberty? The boat probably passed by. Many tourists miss it, but as Americans .... just sayin'
those wasps would have been a no go for me. i dont like those annoying lil shitters xD
other than that, yet another cool video by you guys. i enjoy watching your trips
OK SO HOW MUCH TICKET COST 1.5 HOUR TRAIN PARS TO BELGIUM IS THERE TRAIN PARIS TO GERMANY
Nice! 🙂
But "speed train" is not a thing, that's a "high speed train".
Ooh thanks for the info! Good to know!
It would be a BIG mistake to go to Paris by car. Traffic much as Brussels but 10 times worse.
It's fascinating to look at why it took so long to locate the fire. They only had number codes, unclear labelling and inexperienced or badly paid personnel.
10:55 So, it's actually a business trip for you. Maybe there's a way to get a refund of the resulting expenses from your employer. 😎😊
Amsterdam is far more beautiful than Paris imo
Unfortunately you didn't eat the best food.
What would you recommend? 😊
@@OurStorytoTell I would recommend you to avoid tourist places where it is expensive and bad and prefer little place further than tourist place. It is not beautiful but cheaper and better.
Boring