Colossal Structure of Magnificence
Yeah, three posts on one day – that’s how I work this thing.
So on the eighteenth I went and saw the most famous icon of Paris – the Eiffel tower. It’s funny, it’s not exactly central like you would think from all the pictures. To be perfectly honest I don’t really like heights that much, I kind of get this urge when I’m at the edge looking down to just end it all and jump. Which is weird cause I’m really not like that! I’m a happy person, thanks, and I really like my life, but that little voice sort of controls my limbs and balance as well. Then I feel like I’m tipping over even when I’m a meter away. Yeah I know it’s not right, so I don’t like to put myself in that situation. I didn’t go up.
That and it’s pretty expensive to just wait for a couple of hours in the massive long queues until you finally get to climb about a billion stairs to see a view of a city I wouldn’t really recognize anyway. It was crazy how many people were waiting though! One of the four legs was shut off, so the other three queues were extra long. It was a little cloudy as well, so the view couldn’t have been that great up there.
What did kind of…spark my curiosity, was that there were armed guards wandering around under the tower among the crowds of tourists. When I say armed I mean they really had massive serious-looking guns! Who’s going to blow up the Eiffel tower? Or maybe they were expecting trouble cause of the part that was shut? Gosh, I have no idea it just seemed a little ridiculous to me. I hope it was an over reaction. Also roaming the crowds were a bunch of guys holding fairly large metal rings which had small Eiffel towers attached to them. I know you’re not supposed to catch their eyes or they go for you, telling you that a tiny tower is what you need to make your life complete. But the thing is, those little jingling towers were glittery, and I’m like a magpie when it comes to glittery things. Honestly, it was so hard for me not to turn every time I heard that tinkling noise. I get like that in hardware shops too. You know those buckets of nuts and bolts and nails and things…Yeah I love those. I can’t help it, they’re just so twinkly!
Right, now that those viewers who didn’t realize I’m crazy have gone, I’ll carry on hehe. I saw a horse drawn carriage beside the tower as well! Last time I saw one I was driving behind it trying to get to Devonport. Believe me, they can be hell to pass, cause you don’t want to scare the poor horses but you want to get past fairly quick. Awww and I also saw this really sweet little girl! She had a little black beanie on her head with a bright red flower on it, and she was feeding the pigeons while walking backwards, trying to get them to follow her. Personally I wouldn’t have wanted them following me, but it made this little girl giggle and laugh, aw she was so cute!
That day was also the first time I saw a building which has been made so that things grow on every part of the outside except the windows. I was stunned, it looks so strange! I’ve seen a couple more since but it made me laugh that it was a clever design thing. I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be hard in New Zealand, where if you leave your garlic for too long it sprouts green shoots and tries to find soil. I guess there must be a lot of hard work into making sure it doesn’t leak and that, but it looked like they just made the walls of earth and went ‘ta da!’, or rather, ‘e voila!’.
Since we hadn’t managed to get through the whole of the Musee D’Orsay before it shut a few days earlier, we found our way to it again. On the way we saw yet more golden statues adorning pillars and bridges and things. It was really cool though, we saw a beautiful rainbow. It looked like it was coming from a building too, I don’t know what the building was but it was very pretty, obviously as it was in Paris.
That’s all for that day, over and out J Lots of love to my lovelies back home,
Tia xoxoxox
