Day 1 - Grand Arc, Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower

So I found the hostel, dumped my bags and headed straight out the door. Figured I'd start with Arc de Triomphe - which must be near the La Defense Grand Arc station. Off by about 4kms. So walked to the arc de Triomphe along a street that looked to be insanely expensive - 5th avenue of new york.

So got to the arc, which is a giant roundabout. I don't think there are any road rules but somehow people manage to get around it! The arc itself was undergoing renovations and I wish I knew what the freizers were that I was looking at!

From there wondered down to the Eiffel tower but came across the History of Man museum (!?) along the way. That is one thing I'm finding about Paris - you get off a train anywhere and you are likely to stumble across so,e fantastic museum or architecture.

Made it over to the Eiffel Tower and it was getting on dusk (5pm) so they had flashing lights and bathed it in orange with was cool. Paris is also having a 2012 olympic bid so they have this logo blasted all over major monuments. Not sure that I'm a fan of this. Sydney did it but that was after the bid was won - from what I can remember.

I headed back to the Hostel pretty early - given a long day and walked about 10kms after being on planes for the previous 24 hours. Had a chat with the roomies but crashed early.