Last night on the road. We are in a really nice little hotel a couple of blocks from the Eiffel tower. The Marquis de Eiffel. I will be busy when I get home, updating the photos on this diary as we have not had great Internet connections. We left the hotel in Rome before 7:00 this morning and walked to thr train. We were at the airport and all checked in by 8:30 so when we eventually found the lounge we had coffee and took some waters for the flight and just relaxed a bit. Rick is starting to get sick so he slept on the 2 hours flight to Paris while I planned our route to our hotel. Our bags are checked right through to Seattle so we didn't have to worry about them. So nice not to have to drag them around for a day. We found the train no problem and easily found pur connection to the metro so we were all checked in at the hotel by 2:00 ish.
We immediately headed for the Eiffel tower but there was a security issue and they had closed the pillars temporarily so we took a hop-on hop-off boat trip up and down the Seine. Some scenes from the boat..........
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Notre Dame
The Louvre
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When we got back the lines were moving again so we took the lift all the way to the top. Fantastic views. Quite a memorable experience. I am really glad we did it.
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| View from the River Seine when we were on the boat |
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| View from the Elevator on our way to the top |
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View from the Top. This is the park in front of the Tower
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We found at little restaurant and I had Quiche Lorraine but it was so stuffed with chunks of ham, there was hardly anything else to it. Meat lovers would love that, so Rick happily ate most of my ham. After dinner we went looking for a crepe place for dessert and shared an apple crepe and a coconut crepe. Both delicious.
We wandered around the area and did a bit of shopping but we had to get up early to catch the train to the airport so got back to the hotel around 9 ish. A beautiful, mostly sunny day and we got to see a bit of Paris.
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