Eiffel Tower

Following this we decided on Beth’s bucket list Eiffel Tower instead of Montmartre so Nancy moved it to the next day and scratched off the Champs Elysses and Arc de Triomphe. We sprung for the elevator ride to the 2nd level fearing a case of FOMO as Jan had regretted not taking a ride. Nancy and Jan had lost each other in the crowd two years ago and faced with the last run of the hop-on-hop off bus and fatigue were not able to go. As it turned out, we were glad to take in the views but the 45 minute wait to get a ticket and on the elevator seemed long. Following this we walked over to the Trocadéro, took in a long range view of the tower and then feeling some of the tourist end of day “feet are sore and out of steam” we took the first café that looked reasonable called Frog XV which turned out to be a British pub rather than a place specializing in frogs legs as Beth feared. We opted for ribs but noted it really is a wings and beer place, giving it a disappointing 5/10 but we had no fear of food poisoning. We took the metro back, managing a smooth transfer between stops back to our now familiar neighbourhood.

We have a lot of pictures of and on the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 World’s Fair by Gustav Eiffel. It was meant to be a temporary structure but here it still is and looked as stable and grand as it always has.Read more