Finally we got tickets online to the tower. By the time we got there, and that was quite the adventure, it was nearly 9:00 pm our reservation time.
Our tickets only got us to first platform, then you have to buy tickets to the second.We met a very nice family there from England. They to were surprised by all the French smoking, don't they read?
The English family seemed to be following us. We saw then again on the third platform. There was a Champagne Bar up there, hard to resist!
We wanted to hit the Louvre yesterday, but because of our late start, the train stations have all had a suspiciously missing ticket agent. Purchasing of tickets thus required coins. Which for us was 9 plus euros. No one gives change. We ended up hitting a hot dog vendor for coins.
By then, we came to the decision (and considered hoping the gates), that if the French were going to make it this difficult to buy tickets, we would just buy child tickets. 3 euro, 3 coins.
BTW, we are paying 20% sales tax to the French here, and if that is in addition to income tax, the French should be rioting.
On with the nice side. So tired, so tomorrow. Miss our friends, and our cats and dog. Hope Grazers has just decided to protest the French and she is in our bed tomorrow. she is a major purrer, so makes us too happy.
Au revoir!
Maia, Paul and Victoria
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