19 June 2000 Scott - Au Pacific Hotel, Foundary, Paris We arrived in Paris this morning and it sure is hot. Splashed out on a three star hotel room slightly larger then a broom cupboard and within an easy stroll to the Tour Eiffel and Ecole Militaire. We make our obligatory climb of the tower, all the way up; I had to hold Hel up, with her vertigo; She then spent the rest of the day trying to find a decent snow globe of the tower, who hard is it to come up with some decent tack! Still in the end she was rewarded with a suitably gauche gold glitter edifice in a dome. We have a hard time trying to find a decent French café, not at all like Spain where you just wander anywhere
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