Third Day- Visit to the Eiffel Tower and Bastille Day Celebration in Paris By Nolan

Holiday/Celebration

Colin, Nick, Kai, Jake, and I woke up at 8:00 am in the morning at the West End Hotel to a warm Summer day. We had a nice pleasant breakfast of buttered croissants at the hotel and then had a nice morning walk around the surrounding streets of Paris. It was great morning in Paris and as we walked around we could smell the sweet aroma of the nearby bakeries, we also saw quite a few street performances that were very good and great fun to watch.

          Street preformers in Paris, France

Then when we were content with walking around the city we decide to go back to the hotel and rest for awhile. After about thirty minutes of relaxing at the hotel we left for the Eiffel Tower at 10:00 am on the metro system. We arrived at our destination at around 10:20 am and began a tour of the Eiffel Tower at 10:30 am. Indigenous Food: We were finished with the tour at 1:10 pm and decided to stop and get lunch at the 58 Tour Eiffel Restaurant which consisted of their Example Dish with trout steak with grilled, cooked seasonal vegetables in a shellfish broth confit Paleron way beef stew, mashed potatoes with herbs and mushrooms cost a total of $45.81. When we left the restaurant it was 2:40 pm so we decided to sit in the grass in front of the Eiffel Tower for an hour. From there we walked to the Arc de Triomphe for the military parade that is held there every year for Bastille Day.

Military Parade at the Arc De Triomphe

Bastille Day is the French equivalent for American Independence Day, it marks the storming of the Bastille Prison which is the first major event in the French Revolution. Then at 5:00 pm we left to go back to the Eiffel Tower for their Bastille Day fireworks and ate bread meat and cheese that we had bought for $20.18 at a grocery store. We sat on the lawn in front of the Eiffel Tower to watch the fire works. It was a spectacular display color and lights. When the fireworks ended at 10:30 pm we used the metro and got back to the hotel at 10:40 pm.                                                            

Finale of the Eiffel Tower Fireworks 

                              Show

Total Cost: 59.70 euro's

-Nolan Davis