Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Le Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England, opened the tower.

Whatever, today was my turn to wait in line for hours (47 min actually) for the opportunity to spend 12 Euro to be able to get to the top. As usual the scammers were out and about. Very cleverly of me however, I've started to adopt the "No speakada English" defence. You just have to know how to say it in Italian. So far this has worked a treat....

There seemed to be a huge number of people waiting in the various lines to go in, but it took no time to be at the ticket window and on the way up. The view from the top is spectacular and well worth the 47 min wait.

Tomorrow is the last day in Paris before flying out very early Thursday morning to Athens for a quick stop before again heading off to Malta on Friday.

No comments:

Post a Comment