Chella Forever: Paris Day 4

Our last full day in Paris was to be a bus trip, a tour of the Eiffel Tower, a river cruise and if there was time a trip to The Louvre. The bus tour was taken but the rest sort of got a little muddled up with no river cruise and no going up the Tower !!! Stay tuned !!!

Our bus tour was a hop on hop off open top tour. First destination was The Louvre then onto Norte Dame with us hopping off at the Eiffel Tower.

We wondered if we were going to fit !!

Still wondering !!!

Yes we fitted and popped out at the Louvre !!

Norte Dame

A man begging on the street.

As I have said before the roads were chaos in Paris. The next picture shows you just how the traffic works. Our bus was waiting at the lights to turn left and three cars pulled along side to do the same thing. Right next to us not behind as we do here. Total chaos !!

Heading up the Champs De Elysee

Louis Viton store on the Champs de Elysee

The beautiful Arc de Triomphe

An electric car recharge station.

Heading back to the Tower.

Back again ready to head to the top.

Horse rides around the tower.

Look nearly there !!!

So after an hour and a half waiting in line we bought our tickets, made it through security and went inside to wait for the lift. We made it all the way to the door of the lift when we were told that we must evacuate the area immediately !!! Just our luck !!! So off we went back outside to find the place deserted !! They obviously cleared the outside before they came to get us. We were thankful though that we weren't already on the first or second floors as they were made to walk down the stairs and were the last ones to evacuate.

Walking down from the 1st and 2nd floors.

Police and Military came from everywhere and blocked it all off.

We couldn't even get to the river to get on a cruise :(

After about an hour of waiting to see if it would reopen again we made the decision to leave and try to get some more things packed in. We obviously were never meant to go up the tower. Oh well better luck next time. Our only problem was finding a bus stop close by as all the roads to the tower were blocked off.

Bye-bye tower see you again one day.

The funny thing and a little annoying thing was that by the time we headed back and got on the bus the tower had reopened again !!! Just our luck !!! Oh well onto our next adventure.