GB: Paris Day Two: The Death March: Photo Set 1

Dinner last night was delicious. I had some sort of salmon medallion and AS had roasted chicken. We guessed on most of the menu but both of our dishes were good. Kudos to AS for asking the waiter what "Jarret du porc" meant in English. I has assumed pork chop. The actual answer is pork knuckles. Yum? We treated ourselves to dessert (forgot to take pictures of all courses) of profiteroles - ice cream inside a pastry covered in chocolate sauce - and also a dessert that was lots of layers of pastry with some custard involved. Both scrumptious.

AS noticed toward the end of our meal that the gentleman at the table next to ours was Ian Holm, who played Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings movies.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000453/

He seemed very nice and the waiters were falling over themselves to dote on him.

This morning, after a breakfast of baguette and jam in the apartment, we set off on a walk to the Eiffel Tower. Little did we know that it would turn into a GB-family-style death march around Paris. AS did some calculations, and if you include our trip to the market to get dinner groceries, we walked 8 miles today.

This photo is on the way to the Eiffel Tower. I'm not sure what the building is, but they were massive so we took pictures. Hotel Invalides?

The Eiffel Tower was much bigger than we thought. And so was the line to go up it! There was a small line to take the stairs and an enormous line to take the elevator. We opted to walk around the park surrounding the tower and not go up it. I regret nothing.

There were dozens of people selling knick-knacks and each person would approach you despite the fact that they just saw you say no to someone else. We chose to save our euros for lunch.

A crow eating a bag of potato chips, or as I believe they are known here, le bag of potato chips.

Here's our view walking under the tower. And a shot of the suckers who climbed the stairs up to the first viewing level. There's another viewing level halfway up and one more at the top.