No Paris Vacation Is Complete Without...

The Eiffel Tour! When all else fails, just post pictures of the Eiffel Tower. We visited the famous Tourist Magnet last Saturday, hiked all the way up to the top, and came away with a handful of overdone yet satisfying photos of the occasion. Here are a few:

Night-time view of the Tour, all lit up.

View of Arc de Triomphe from the top.

Ants! My favorite bit of Tour Eiffel graffiti, the translation reads: "Vladamir, I love your wife. " Evidently, memoirs of a love affair in Paris...

Oh yeah, and special thanks to Susie Hellman for calling this relevant news item to my attention.

French for the Day: In a tradition similar to telling somebody to "Break a leg!" rather than boring old "Good luck!" before any kind of performance or event, in French you tell the person "Merde!" Which, of course as we all know by know, is the French translation for excrement, aka shit.