Eiffel Tower

Rising sun acted as a giant heater but was useless against the freezing wind. The milling crowd loomed before us. Driver said we would have to wait for weeks to go up.

The steel structure looks forbidding and magnificent. On the other side, it displayed 13 days to the year 2000. Just across a small road stood rows of temperate trees ravaged by winter. Flowers still bloomed around the small pond.