Eiffel Tower and Dinner with Cousin

Saturday, August 06, 2016
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Hanny and I have come on our first trip to France, Paris. We left yesterday flying Easyjet, a plane this was late, resulted in sitting on the ground for an hour whilst another crew was sourced, and we only got to our hotel at midnight by which time we had no evening to have dinner or any sort of wandering round.

We slept in a bit today and headed out to try and see the Catacombs near Denfert Rochereau . On discovering an exceptionally long queue we cut our losses and headed for the big sights!

Eiffel Tower.
After half an hour of queueing, a bag check, (to get into the site) and another hour and a bit in a queue to go up the tower in the lift, we were finally 'on/in the tower' what a view!
There was a lot of time queuing and bustling and standing today and some sightseeing, but all in all after paying 14,50 to up to the summit and the time put in to standing in line, we decided that today has to be about "doing the Eiffel Tower completely" so that if we come back to Paris we don't have to do it again!!

After the tower we went to meet Jen, my mums cousin near Saint Pauls - we had a drink then dinner at an excellent Thai restaurant and spent hours talking, then we went for a cocktail in a little gay bar down a back street playing very funky music.
Returned to the hotel about midnight as we need to get up early tomorrow to try the catacombs again!!

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