Paris Recap Day 5, Christmas Eve

We took a long walk to the Eiffel Tower. I'm guessing breakfast was forgotten or ignored. There's no photo. 

I was scared of the heights. 

The views were spectacular!

There's two sets of elevators and a final set of stairs to get to the top. I made it to the end of the elevator and that was good for me. 

After walking passed the dudes seeking the mini Eiffel towers for a euro, we found the first restaurant and dunked in for lunch. 

Duck was in our sights. 

Wine of course. 

And coffee. 

On our way to the Christmas market, we bought our Christmas present. 

At the Christmas market I found hot wine and fell in love. 

The market was way too huge but we walked a good distance away from our hotel. 

I was enamored with taking selfies with the Eiffel Tower. I preferred that to being at the top. 

The Hotel Konfidential gave us chocolate for Christmas. It's delicious!

For dinner we snacked on escargots and duck pâté. No doubt, bread was involved as well. 

Duck twice in a day? That's a good day! Today we walked 24,300 steps. 

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We attempted to find Starbucks but was skunked. I thought it was underground but at any rate the garden where it was to be found was most definitely under construction. Nelson Mandela garden. We found this little coffee shop with free wifi and settled on that. We were quite turned around and there were extra steps involved. 

We were headed to Montemarte, it's at the top of a hill and Espace Dali was there. The museum was small but I loved all the melting clocks. Dali looked like he was quite the character. 

After climbing the mountain, I needed more coffee. Fortunately, there was free wifi and Starbucks right behind the museum. From there we wandered over to the Basilica of Montemarte. What a sight! 

We walked through the church and found it to be impressive inside as well. They hold services there but I wasn't interested in a sermon in French (or English really.) For 6 euros, you can climb all the stairs to the top and have a unobstructed view of all of Paris. 

We are both afraid of heights and it was scary. 

I found the Eiffel Tower! After snapping the pics, we carefully headed down. It's a giant spiral staircase that has you going around and around and around. It had a dizzying affect. 

We had our portrait done by one of the many artists in residence there. Francois stopped me and had to draw us. Then he wanted 150 to 200 euro. I was able to get him 150 and he was pleased. 

We sat enjoying the meat plate, the wine, the bread and the people watching.

Then capped the feast off with a Nutella crepe and coffee. 

I snapped a pic of the napkin because I liked the location and the staff was friend,y. 

Shameless selfie with their Christmas tree upstairs. 

We went to Crazy Horse later that night and enjoyed their champagne. Good show and good drink! This was the one time we used a taxi to get to and from our destination (besides the airport).

When we got back from the show, we decided a few more drinks was a good idea. That's mulled wine.

And he had beer. The service was French. That means they don't come quick or often. I'm guessing its cultural because so many people will order a 2 euro coffee and chat for hours. Literally, hours. Which is something we should embrace here. There's no need to rush. We had 17,200 steps this day.