Pretty view from atop the Eiffel Tower

The river Seine

What looks like a Palace is actually a military academy - with schools like this, wonder why they don't become the military superpower of the world...?

The top was inaccessible...

The elevator ride on the way down

Looks like a scene in 2001: A Space Oddyssey

As we are walking away from the tower, it started blinking again...

I thought that if my brother Philip were to ever release a CD, this should be the cover (He doesn't think so)

We then took the train to Bir-Hakeim to a restaurant which Philip heard about from a friend...

French beer

The menu was on a chalkboard

Now this is what I had imagined Paris to be - restaurants filled with smoke, people all dressed up like they're on a job interview...

and EXCELLENT BAGUETTES!

La Marine - that's where we had dinner...