So once we finished looking around Notre Dame we headed back towards the metro station but not before a few more photos. There was a lady near Notre Dame selling food for the birds and there was loads of pigeons around. It reminded me a little of St. Mark's Square in Venice but also of the song from Mary Poppins, "Feed the birds"
I took this as we headed back across the bridge to get the metro:
The RER's were pretty cool they were double deckers:
So we arrived back at the Eiffel Tower at around 4.30 ish and it had gone relatively quiet compared to earlier the queue was alot shorter and so my travelling companion went off to find a seat while I hopped onto the end of the queue. Enter rude person number two of the day. I was very obviously standing at the end of the queue and this French speaking guy and woman came and he just stood right in front of me, like really is one person really going to make all that difference on your wait time. She said to him that I was there first and he just ignored her. She went behind me and he refused to move so she eventually gave up and went to join him. I said nothing because I could see she tried to be mannerly about it and he was just ignorant. It was getting colder now as well but the queue moved fast enough and I took pictures to pass the time:
I decided only to go to the second floor as I would see everything from there and didn't want to leave my travelling companion waiting to long as it said the wait for the lift to the top was a further 45 minutes. It was only 8.50 euros to go to the second floor which I was surprised about, I was expecting it to be alot more. To go to the top was only 14 euro which again I was expecting it to be more. On the second floor you can go outside and walk all around the tower to get pictures from every angle, which of course I did. Turns out that the time I went up the tower was perfect as well because I got to see the view in day light but also the sun started to set when I was up there so got to see that and Paris lighting up at night:
I wandered around for another while then went inside. There was a little shop where you could buy souvenirs of the Eiffel Tower for ridiculous prices that you could buy on nearby stalls for anything from 1 to 10 euro. I then made my way over to the lifts because I was worried my travelling companion would be freezing on the ground. Enter rudey number three there was an obvious queue for the lifts and this French speaking dude, his wife and two kids decided they didn't actually need to queue and just walked right up the side of the queue and attempted to by pass the entire line. It worked until people copped onto what they were at and stood out in front of them blocking their way. On the way down in the lift the tower started to twinkle. It was amazing. It was still twinkling when I got to the bottom:
After that we started to make the journey back to Disneyland. Once we got back we went into the Disney Village for some food and browsed some of the shops on the way back to the bus stop:
We got the bus back to our hotel, got our room sorted and then just about fell into bed after a long enjoyable day.
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