Today started off with another tasty hostel breakfast (cereal, juice, bread & jam) and a quick jaunt to the store for batteries. Yay for a camera that works! I took pictures today, but don't plan on posting any tonight...it's already late so I'm going to try to keep this short.
The touristy portion of the day started off with a 4 hour long walking tour offered by New Europe. Fun times! Tour Guide Matt was knowledgable and very perky/spunky and wedged in enough Paris trivia to create an entire column of questions in Jeopardy. We popped by all the major landmarks - didn't actually go inside anywhere, but it was a fabulous introduction to everything and made for some good photo-ops. I'd recommend it! All the tour guides work on tips alone, but they make it a really interesting/fun time.
The only downside of the tour was the weather - rainy and windy on and off. At one point I was pretty well soaked, but gladly I am not wicked enough to melt.
Following the tour, two other girls from the hostel and I made our way to the Arc de Triomphe. The tunnel is kind of fun in it's own way, the stairs are a work-out, and the view from the top is pretty terrific.
It doesn't compare with the view from the top of the Eiffel Tower though. If you're going to do Paris, you must do the Eiffel Tower - and if you're going to do the Eiffel Tower, you must go all the way to the top. Cold and windy, yes - but still pretty amazing. We went after dark and the lights were pretty fabulous. It was also fun to pick out some of the monuments/buildings we saw earlier in the day.
I'm beginning to understand why Paris is known so well as a city for romance - factor in a bunch of love-y dove-y art (Cupid and Psyche, The Kiss, etc), breath-taking cathedrals, astounding views - and heaps of couples enjoying it all - and everything kind of falls into place.
I forgot to mention the deliciousness that is a crepe. YUM.
For the record, nothing particularly disastrous happened to me today. : )
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