A Trip To Paris, The City of Light, France

Paris is known to be the city of light… or a place where most romance happens… well.. at least in the minds and thoughts of what most people would think.

I love Paris… in fact, I think its one of the best places I’ve visited in all my travel endeavors.

Visiting Effiel tower has always been one of my “must see” list in my travel book. It was the first thing me and my wife did when we arrived in Paris… well.. after a good nights sleep of course.. since the plane touched down late at night.

So, it would be more appropriate to say.. we went on the second day.. but early in the morning.

Took a bus there and bypass the Arc De Triomphe… and I got really excited seeing the huge arc. Maybe because I was pretty impress with the carvings of the structure itself. The way it stands majestically there right in the middle of the road…

We did not stop however, I guess its because we wanted to see Paris Effiel Tower first hand.

So we arrived at the tower and saw this huge and tall tower… ok… most people would think it looks normal because its basically just a brown tower and all.. but I guess I just had this thing for “big”.. ahem… or should I say.. things that are magnificent and have this towering aura around.

So.. Paris Effiel tower does impresses me a lot with that standing so finally… I had my picture taken at Effiel Tower… striking off one of my to do list in my crazy traveling life.

After visiting the tower.. we then moved around and start to explore more of Paris itself, visiting the Les Invalides and also visiting the Lourve Museum… some of the must visits in Paris… and time passes really quickly when you are enjoying yourself… in no time.. its night fall.

Ok… the real highlight of the day actually comes when I suggested to my wife that we should take a nice picture together with the tower – “Night Scene”.

With that, my wife and I stayed late into the night… and just took a picture of us  in front of the tower with our hands so called.. introducing the tower…

There is a problem though. We only had a 15 cm camera stand, and there was no chairs, tables or platforms high enough for us to properly place our stand at the right angle.

So.. I had to run to and fro while adjusting the timer… and at the same.. making sure that my angle was snap correctly(angle of my hand and spot I stand). It cannot be too high nor can I stand too far or have space between the tower.

It was hard…

So.. my wife just stood there.. and I was running… snap… check.. not good.. adjust.. go back.. snap.. check… adjust…..

Ok.. so that running to and fro took me about 20 trips to finally snap a decent one.

While it was a very dramatic picture… it certainly doesn’t come easy… =P