Damn its early at 430 in the morning! woke to get taxi to the Euro-star for Paris so we could go on le tour.
Heard the news that Rasmussen had been kicked out of the tour last night. Not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing. Euro-star wasn’t too bad but we were seated backwards so not sure that I really liked that idea. Wish the seats would flip over depending on the direction you were going.
Checked into the hotel Novotel after having something fo eToat in the hotel bar as the room wasn’t ready yet. Once in the room, the room was a little better than what we have been use to of late. You wouldn’t hit the walls when you swing the cat in this one.
Got the metro to Musee Rodin and walked around looking at all the sculptures of Augustine Rodin. the sculptures where very good just not entirely my thing. To each their own as they say.
Back to the hotel to watch the end of the stage and see what was happening with the evictions of the riders. maybe we should see on the tv next year big brother tdf – may as well with all the evictions going on! who would host it?
Could understand very much on the tv as it was all in French – funny that.
Off to the Eiffel Tower then and as we had reservations to the restaurant, we were able to jump the queue. this was a good thing considering the number of people all lined up.
The views of Paris were great. unlike Sydney, the tower actually lets you see the city. Sydney Tower i think is a little bit less scenic from that point of view.
Estee and I had dinner @ Altitude 95 which is a restaurant on the 1st level of the Eiffel Tower. This was a reasonably nice restaurant. not too expensive and the view from the window table was great as the sun went down, although the cloud in the west sort of ruined it to a point. After dinner we went down stairs and took some pictures of the tower with all the lights on before walking back to the hotel. We tried to catch a taxi but it appears that they don’t like the tourists or don’t like to take small fares.
