Loving Paris

Posted on | December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Something I’m sure many of you have done in the past is climb the Eiffel Tower in the wintry cold. I visited Paris in mid December and certainly was not prepared for the weather that was awaiting me…

I left my paris accommodation on a cold Saturday morning and headed out with my friend in the direction of the Eiffel Tower. The cold hit me straight away and I noticed that every single Parisian that I could see was wrapped up in beret and scarf, so wrapped up in fact that it was impossible to see their faces!

The Eiffel tower is 1,063 ft high and has been visited by more than 200,000,000 since its construction in 1889. There are two ways of getting up the tower, be it by foot or by lift. For some strange reason, my friend and I chose the walking option, not a good idea considering the weather. It costs €3.40 for students to walk up to the second floor, but if you want to go all the way to the top, it costs an extra €5. Going up in the lift costs €5 and you pay again to go all the way to the top.

Our long journey up the Eiffel tower was a long and slow one, and included the numbing of my feet and freezing of my toes. When at the top, there are lots of interesting hints and facts about the Eiffel tower, including a guide for children that tells them when it was built, how high it is and why it was built in the first place, (for the Universal Exhibition in 1889).

As well as this, you can see the roofs of many paris apartments all the way across Paris and the boards point out the many different sites that you can see, informing you of what they are.