Day #2 in Paris: The Eiffel Tower

When I woke up Baba was coming through the door with our breakfast of incredible pastries from a local patisserie called Paul. I had a strawberry lemon tart and hot chocolate. Baba had an olive bread and coffee. After breakfast, we got ready and left to go to the Eiffel tower. We walked about two miles to France's most famous tower.


The Eiffel tower 


My amazing banana Nutella crepe at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower.


Looking up the center of the Eiffel tower

The Palace de Chaillot seen from the Eiffel tower
The view of the top viewing platform 276m above the ground seen from Eiffel tower from the secont floor.


The Palace de Chaillot seen from the top deck of the Eiffel tower
View of the amazing city of Paris.


Magic umbrella on the road back from the Eiffel tower.

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  1. UnknownApril 24, 2017 at 8:13 AM

    Were you surprised by its height and color when you first saw it? I remember that so clearly and wonder with the technology available if you had seen more accurate/close up photos. I love the pic from underneath, I remember feeling slightly dizzy under there looking up!
    The fountains at Trocadéro/PLais de chaillot are favorites of mine. We used to hang out there at night with the great view, when in college.
    In grad school I lived close to the tower and would surprise guests with a night ti,e walk there, glimpsing the top after turning a corner of a side street ...
    So cool all the things you experienced on this trip, and especially the pastry and crêpes!

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  2. Kerri LoriganApril 24, 2017 at 9:39 AM

    Wow... I, too, love the image from below. Although the view of the city from the top is pretty amazing as well. I'm fascinated by the spiral design of the city (look up a map if you haven't seen one already), especially b/c it was a Roman city. Check out this website: http://www.paris.culture.fr/en/

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  3. RogerApril 24, 2017 at 10:16 PM

    Charlie, you probably know about the Second World War and all the destruction that resulted from it. Many of the world's great cities were bombed: London, Berlin, Rotterdam, Tokyo, even Rome. But Paris wasn't. When the Germans turned their attention to conquering Paris, several of its airplanes bombed a couple of factories in the south of Paris. At that point the possibility that all of beautiful Paris would be destroyed horrified people. So a French general asked that Paris be declared an open city. An open city means that a city will surrender on the condition that it will not be bombed nor its people shot by the invaders. The Germans agreed to it. They liked the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, and Parisian patisseries, too.

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