Every night when the weather is nice there is a sort of spontaneous international picnic and tower-watching party on the grass of the Parc du Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. We went there with a VirtualTourist group and had a pleasant time just standing or sitting around with hundreds of other people (it’s a big park) and going ouu and ahh once an hour when the tower started sparkling for a few minutes. Second photo: Lots of people on the grass. Third photo: VT members taking photos. The one facing us is Sonja (yumyum from Zürich, Switzerland) and the one with the tripod is Ann (aussirose from Perth, Australia). Fourth photo: The sparkling tower. My astronomer friends would no doubt decry this as unnecessary light pollution, but when you’re in good company on a warm evening it’s sort of nice.
Loved the over all experience of visiting Eiffel Tower, but I failed to understand why is it often associated with Love, when it's history has got nothing to do with Love. (It was a structure made for an exhibition.) Anyways, the garden in front of the Tower is calm & you can spend hours just sitting there! We visiting there when it was raining, made the whole atmosphere more charming. Paris over all looks much more beautiful when it's raining. The only annoying part was the long queue to get to the top of the Tower.
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