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Today was our final day in Paris. For that we had booked an Eiffel Tower tour. The tour representative was an Aussie from Brisbane (taking a year off from uni), and our tour guide Lindsay, was from the US. (She is doing history and archival studies at a university here.) She was a veritable wealth of information. Booking ahead means you can't plan for the weather and unfortunately today was the worst, weather wise that we had had so far. It was too windy for us to go to the very top and I wasn't surprised - it was windy enough on the 2nd level, wet and bitterly cold! Even still we had great views across the city. Our last visit was to the Arc de Triomphe. We climbed the 284 stairs to the top. Not quite as windy there! The view from the top is spectacular - you are in the middle of the roundabout with 8 or 9 road running off it (including the Champs Elysee), like the spokes on a wheel. We headed back to our apartment for dinner and to pack our bags, ready for our early start the next day.
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