Conquering the Eiffel Tower and Montmartre

Wednesday September 14, 2016 – Paris Day 4

Touring the Eiffel Tower was our main plan today. I had scheduled our tickets to be go to the sommet at 2pm. Worked like a charm. It was fairly quick the ride on the 2 elevators to the very top. You are about 900 feet up, so I told the kids they can go on a balloon ride since when I did it we only went up 1200 ft. 🙂 

Some fun facts. The ET was created for the 1889 World Fair. It was designed and built by Gustav Eiffel. It still is the tallest structure in France. 

Check out this YouTube video. Below is just a sample of all the pics we took at the ET. 

Waiting for our turn to go up!

The babies before going up!

My girl and I. In ❤

Cant tell what this is. Can you see any of the main buildings?

Sacre Couer in the background.. Our next stop

We took so many pics!

Going down to level 1. Got tired of waiting for the elevator…

This is a “spontaneous” posed picture.

This seems like a good christmas pic!

Nani ❤

Next stop was Montmartre. This was the highlight of my day. I enjoyed this more than the ET. We visited the Sacre Coeur church; I love churches. This one is not too old,less than 100 years old or so. The cool thing about this church is the Dome climb. You can see the whole city from there including the ET. It is 300+ steps up a VERY narrow staircase. I am surprised that baby Bibo the barbarian fit (barely) in the staircase. 

Here are a few pics of the church and the climb up. 

Very small space!

Checking the pics they took. Lol

Can you see the ET? 🙂

Bibo going down the staircase.

After visiting the dome, we went down to explore Montmartre. Very nice neighborhood. Lots of bars, restaurants and great shopping too! We were starving and dinner was not until 7pm so while looking for a place to buy a a snack, we stumbled upon this Colombian store. OMG! It had the best empanadas. That held us over until dinner. We found this great  little restaurant in Yelp called La Cave Gourmande. The food was awesome. Our waitress was from Cuba! So this time I did not have to use Google Translate to understand the menu. 🙂  Dinner in Europe is a relaxed affair. You are not rushed to give up your table once you are done. They won’t bring you your bill unless you ask for it. ❤

Some random street in Montmartre.

Found the Puertorican flag at the colombian market.

Sooo good!

After dinner, we called it a night. It was already close to 10pm and the kids were flying out to PR the next morning. 

I plan to stay in Paris one more day. Then next for me is Bruges over the weekend with a final stop in London next week.  

Until next post! ❤ Ana