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FRANCE - DAY 3 - ARC DE TRIOMPHE
After the opulence of Versailles, we needed to come back down to earth so we thought, why not climb the Arc de Triomphe? 284 steps later, up a spiraling staircase, we were at the top. Awesome views. The scale and dimension of these monuments throughout Paris is mind blowing. Nothing the French seem to have built in the past was small. The detail in each structure is hard to describe. You can't believe it until you are standing underneath a momument that is 50 metres high and you can see the intricate carvings.
We managed to time our climb perfectly with the lighting of the flame on the tomb of the unkown soldier, which is directly beneath the Arc de Triomphe.
This made for a very long day as we managed to stagger into the hotel after 9:30 as the photo of Ellexis and Angelique asleep on the train shows.
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