We decided to climb the Tower, since it was about 10:30pm there was no line whatsoever (days before we had seen 2-3 hour lines just to walk up the stairs!!!!) and we were able to walk straight up the 600 odd stairs (which was a bit of a work out) to the second level. The photos don't really do it justice but it was a pretty sweet view!
We stuck around to watch the hourly light show, basically the Eiffel Tower lights up with sparkly lights for about 5 minutes every hour and it looks pretty amazing!
From crazy Paris we then headed to quiet Annecy (thank god). Annecy is a pretty small town (you can pretty much walk the whole place in an hour) in Eastern France not far from the French Alps and Switzerland. Its famous for Annecy Lake, which is the giant lake it's pretty much built upon, there are heaps of water sports in summer but unforunately the weather did its usual thing and we only got one semi good day! We did get to walk around the Lake, which would be amazing in summer!!
We also strolled through the Old Town of Annecy (pictured below alongside the canals) and the Chateau de I'ile (next to Michael), which Michael saw on a post card almost 2 years ago and decided he wanted to see, so volia!
We caught two buses into what seemed like the middle of nowhere (there was only 1 other person on one of them) to check out the Gorges du Fier - about 10km outside of Annecy.
We walked along a 25m high board walk connected to the inside of the gorge, it was pretty crazy but really nice to get outdoors!
None of the photos look as cool as it did in real life but you get the point.
Afterwards we went and looked at a bunch of historical videos and pictures and some years the water gets so high you can touch it from the board walk! One year the water got so high it flooded out of the whole gorge and actually destroyed the board walk and all the surrounding buildings!
After our afternoon in the wilderdess we dolled ourselves up and went for dinner in the Old Town of Annecy, of course it rained (as usual), I would have loved to walk around more and check it out at night but we are both sick of getting rained on so we just wanted to choose a restaurant and get inside.
I took a sneaky picure of our entree (left), which on the menu read as "chicken and vegetable spring roll," this is definetly not what I expected.... The other picture is the most amazing dessert I have ever had - black and white molten lava cake YUMMMM!!
It had semi stopped raining when we started walking home so we quickly checked out the Old Town and the Cheateau de I'ile before we left!
Oh and just a few random things I have learnt while in France:
- They don't have sour cream or porridge OMG...
- Nobody will ever move to let you past on the side walk.
- Nearly everyone seems to speak a million languages (and after they get sick of your awful French they suddenly break out in English just to save everyone time).
- They don't have memes on Facebook (yes, this came up).
- Everyone thinks Parisians are arrogant (haha).
- Supermarkets are few and far between but there are a million pharmacies. Seriously, everywhere!
- Eating out is insanely expensive!
- Their high speed TGV trains are actually the fastest in the world!
- Cous cous is everywhere.
- They LOVE a good church/chateaux/momument - everywhere!
That's all for now!
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