And some points of interest after the Louvre and before Montparnasse.
The Centre Pompidou, home of the modern art museum.
A cool mural outside a church.
An amazing Nutella-coconut crepe I got from a street vendor.
The Hippy Market!
The woman I saw who once played with Jason Mraz.
What are the chances I'd see someone from a youtube video in one of the busiest cities in the world?
The oldest harbor in Paris
The Bastille, where people like stormed the city and overthrew Louis XVI, I think.
The only wooden house in Paris.
The following pics are from the top of Montparnasse, a skyscraper, up until the graffiti.
Les Invalides, which is now a military museum.
Sacre-Coeur
Cimetiere Montparnasse
The dark tree area is Cimetiere Pere Lachaise.
The Eiffel Tower
Me!!!
Meghan and me in the elevator.
Montparnasse
Some French graffiti in the Metro area
The Eiffel Tower is a bit crude-looking. It's an ugly brown. Good thing I'm in the picture. LOL
The following pics are from the Eiffel Tower.
Me and Meghan climbed 669 steps to get to the 1/3 way point (which is like the first flat part in the pic above), where we took an elevator to the top.
Here you can see Les Invalides and the city.
This is where we stopped on our tour on the day we went to Versailles.
This one's a bit blurry because of the glass walls, but you can see l'Arc de Triomphe.
L'Arc de Triomphe and the Grande Etoile (Big Star) which is a huge roundabout that goes around the Arch. You can't even cross it, so you go down into a tunnel to get to the Arch. When Matt and I went to the Arch, police had stopped traffic for some escort. I meant to get a pic but didn't because of the rain. It's probably pretty rare to see no cars in the roundabout.
A soccer field and some buildings that had probably courtyards in the middle.
The line that we didn't have to wait in. Did I ever tell that story? We were gonna have to wait for up to four hours in line to take the elevator all the way up, so the group split and my half was going to take the stairs to the first landing, then Franck was gonna take us walking around. But instead, we did take the stairs but Franck got us tickets for the elevator to the top. So we waited for maybe half an hour total and climbed a bunch of stairs. Not too bad. The other group ended up waiting for only two hours. Whatever, at least I can say I climbed the Eiffel Tower's stairs.
The streets are so cool.
A lovely British man was pointing things out to his kids, so me and Meghan eavesdropped and were able to identify the Pont Alexandre III and the Obelisk . . .
. . . The Louvre . . .
. . . and Notre Dame. Thank you random British man. I now know to follow the river.
Hahs! Did you really think I got a picture of the Eiffel Tower from the top of the Eiffel Tower? (Funny story, from the top of the Eiffel Tower I was looking for the statue of liberty and asked Meghan, "Where's the Eiffel Tower? I can't find it." I meant to ask where the statue of liberty was, which I never found. You get so used to looking for the Eiffel Tower that you subconsciously look for it when you are there.
The one on the left is Montparnasse from the Eiffel Tower
and on the right is the Eiffel Tower from Montparnasse.
I just like the metal part in this picture. It puts things into perspective.
The top of the tower is actually about 300 m tall. I'm not at the very top in this one.
Sacre Coeur
This is what it looks like at the almost top part. Very busy. You hear so many different languages at once.
Sacre Coeur again.
I've got the whole world in my hands . . . or maybe just Sacre Coeur.
This elevator goes up as we go down in another.
This was my lunch. Me and Meghan got it from a corner deli place. Just cheese and tomatoes and lettuce. Thank you for putting up with my dietary preferences Meghan!
FYI: you can't see the Eiffel Tower from every window in Paris, but when you are nearby, you feel like you are in a storybook world.
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