Growing up, I had an Eiffel Tower poster on my bedroom wall. This carried over to college, where one poster turned into three. I guess it makes sense that I went to Paris after all :)
Seeing the Eiffel Tower in person was incredible. On the first full day in the city, after a lot of struggle to buy metro tickets and navigate our way while avoiding the men who aggressively sell Eiffel Tower trinkets in the vacinity (little did we know we would have to continue this avoidance for five months), we saw the tower in all its majesty. Read more about my first impressions here.
The pictures above represent almost every time I posted the tower on my instagram. At the time I felt like maybe I was aggressively instagramming it, but the sight of it grounded me to where I was and made me realize how lucky I was to be there. In May, it finally got warm enough to have picnics in the grass, an absolute dream of an activity. I didn't climb the tower until my last week there. It was perfect, because I was able to recognize major buildings - a true testament to how much I'd learned. My last night in the city, I went back to the Eiffel Tower, this time to Trocadero, and this time with different friends. We ended up staying over an hour, saying goodbye to each other, to the city, and to its biggest symbol. I miss it every day.
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The view from the top of the tower is gorgeous, but the Eiffel Tower is the symbol of Paris, why go to the one place you can't see it? On a quick trip to Paris, I recommend visiting Tour Montparnasse instead for an equally cool view - this time with the tower.
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