After all that stuff we did on Valentines day we thought we may as well treat ourselves to a really nice dinner. As we also thought we were quite stupid to miss out on proper spainish cuisine when we were there, we thought we wont do it with France.
So we ate some snails. They aren't bad at all, thoguh ours were heavily coated in garlic.
After that we went to the Eiffel Tower around 9pm and travelled up it. It is massive. Like really massive. And when you are in an elevator with glass walls and it just keeps taking you up, it does get a bit like a theme park ride. Sarah was shitting herself.
The view was amazing and they had little distance flags placed around the perimeter showing you what direction and how far away major cities of the world were. We were pretty impressed to find Wellington was the furhterest away out of all of them at nearly 19000 kms.
On the thursday we went to the arc de triomphe which is basically a massive roundabout. There is about 6 lanes of traffic constantly going around it and no road markings. Just as sarah was saying "I cannot believe they dont have accidents" we saw a guy on a moterbike get slammed by a car. He went soaring through the air and did a pretty mean flip. Hope he is alright.
Also went back to the Eiffel Tower to get some daytime photos and visited the Pantheon.
Its funny about Europe. They got the same shit over here that we got back home except over here its just a little different.
Example
- You can get beer basically anywhere. Most vending machines just in the street have beer in them and no real age control thing to stop underage kids buying it.
- Cops are everywhere and they have every form of transport. I am not kidding but yesterday we saw a pack of cops in police issued roller blades. There is also at least one cop on every street corner and thy just stand around really
- A big macs a big mac but they call it Le Big Mac
