The Eiffel Tower looms over the City of Lights like a child’s oversized erector set. If I had been a better higher math student, perhaps I may have become an engineer (to the chagrin of some of my former colleagues). However, I’m still nerdy enough to have taken photos of the rivets. Isn’t it fascinating?
Heights scare me and I have a childhood fear of being stuck at the top of a Ferris Wheel. However, another Parisian ‘superstructure’ (everything is typically low in Paris), the La Grande Roue cannot be missed! It’s in the Place de Concorde. That’s the site of the beheadings (yep, that’s right!) of Marie Antionette and Louis XVI. But no need to be afraid as the guillotines these days as they have been disassembled and put away.
Notre Dame cannot be overlooked either, because it is so amazing. Can you imagine designing and building this before computers or construction cranes?
