A delightful dinner at a Pizza restaurant on the Des Champs Elysees with Isaline and her mother has concluded a busy and enjoyable day. In the morning we travelled to Palace De Versailles by the jam packed suburban train. Somehow the train crowded to capacity managed to absorb the Sullivans and Isaline. Arriving at the Palace I was astounded at the sheer size of the De Versailles. After a queue we joined another crowd that jostled its way around the magnif...

Today we decided to go to the Eiffel Tower in the morning. We caught three different metro trains and arrived a couple of hundred meters from the tower. We bought the tickets and started to climb the 669 steps all the way to the second floor. We admired the views and then caught the elevator all the way the top. As we steped out onto the viewing platform the first thing we noticed was the incredible views all over Paris, and the second the thing was the wind whic...