Friday after everyone finished up work we convened at the
Köln Hauptbahnhoff for our final adventure as a triad. Indeed
Lorik was left behind in Paris and Vlad is going home this weekend leaving yours truly to explore Europe alone.
Since
Lorik was staying in Paris he drove us there. Our first stop was for some food. As soon as we got our food the heavens opened up and we got to watch a rainstorm stronger than anything I've seen since the blackout back in the day. Once it lightened up a bit we ran out to the car and headed to the next stop, Charles
de Gaulle airport.
Lorik had to return his rental car. While
Vlad and I calculated the speed of the moving walkway and the net times savings of using it
Lorik found out that since he was 6 days late on returning the car he couldn't turn it in and had to come back on
Saturday. Also, 'It's not possible, we don't make reservations for more than a month' .
Lorik had the car for 2.5 months on contract from the Hertz manager. Finally, something about the police was said and after driving the car away we figured out that it was probably reported stolen since it wasn't returned on time.
We decided to do a drive by of the
Eiffle tower since it was about 11pm. After the 7 lane roundabout around the Arc
de Triomphe with Vlad singing the 3 ring circus tune we found a parking spot. A free one at that too, about 1km from the tower. So our early evening with a drive by of the tower turned into a couple hours of
awesomeness. The 3rd floor (top) of the tower was closed so we had to settle on the second floor which is still ridiculously high off the ground and pretty windy too. The people look like ants...
hah... So we watched the sparkle and got some cool footage of it too. Note the image of the batman
Eiffle signal. After they shut down the tower we wandered back to the car to begin the search for our hotel. Finally we called it a night around 2am to prep for a big day on Saturday.
Note the Arc
de Triomphe as seen from the
Eiffle tower.
Since Lorik was staying in Paris he drove us there. Our first stop was for some food. As soon as we got our food the heavens opened up and we got to watch a rainstorm stronger than anything I've seen since the blackout back in the day. Once it lightened up a bit we ran out to the car and headed to the next stop, Charles de Gaulle airport. Lorik had to return his rental car. While Vlad and I calculated the speed of the moving walkway and the net times savings of using it Lorik found out that since he was 6 days late on returning the car he couldn't turn it in and had to come back on Saturday. Also, 'It's not possible, we don't make reservations for more than a month' . Lorik had the car for 2.5 months on contract from the Hertz manager. Finally, something about the police was said and after driving the car away we figured out that it was probably reported stolen since it wasn't returned on time.
We decided to do a drive by of the Eiffle tower since it was about 11pm. After the 7 lane roundabout around the Arc de Triomphe with Vlad singing the 3 ring circus tune we found a parking spot. A free one at that too, about 1km from the tower. So our early evening with a drive by of the tower turned into a couple hours of awesomeness. The 3rd floor (top) of the tower was closed so we had to settle on the second floor which is still ridiculously high off the ground and pretty windy too. The people look like ants... hah... So we watched the sparkle and got some cool footage of it too. Note the image of the batman Eiffle signal. After they shut down the tower we wandered back to the car to begin the search for our hotel. Finally we called it a night around 2am to prep for a big day on Saturday.
Note the Arc de Triomphe as seen from the Eiffle tower.
2 comments:
Oh dang it I forgot to send you all my crap about Paris. Eh, doesn't sound like you had a ton of time anyway. I've been up as far as you can go on the Tour d'Eiffel but nighttime looks awesome. I drank the pms away on Friday, hit a brewery tour and an outdoor beerfest on Saturday, and bottled two beers on Sunday. Tony's beer will be great. The blueberry champagne...well it wasn't supposed to be champagne, so we'll see.
Why is that song from 1999, "I'm Blue" by Eiffel 65 in my head now after seeing this post?
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