Disappointing First Experiences Arriving To Paris - Heat Wave Closes Eiffel Tower / Hotel AC Breaks
Paris Heat Wave 2025
Transcript
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Today's adventure begins as the
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recording of this Tuesday,
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July 1st, 2025. I'm standing out of
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outside of the King's Cross Station here
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in London, England, where I'm going to
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pop inside for a coffee and then after
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that walk across the street to St.
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Pancress, where I will be grabbing a
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train, the Euro Star Plus, on my way to
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my July country. July is beginning and
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I'm going to a country I've never been
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to before,
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Paris. France is on the agenda. I will
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be in France
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later this afternoon.
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Little view here of King's Cross
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Station. Got my got my prep coffee,
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vanilla latte, and one last peak over at
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the 9 and 3/4 platform by the Harry
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Potter store.
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Always a line. Always a line for that
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photo op.
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All right, looking here at the board. It
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is 11:41 a.m. at the moment and mine is
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the 131. Well, 1331,
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which is 1:31. 9028 is the train. And I
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can go start to head over that direction
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at 12:15.
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I still got a little bit of time.
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Walk over. Look at this little statue
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here. This clock, big clock.
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And there's one of the Euroar trains
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right there. I've taken so many trains
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in the last couple weeks. I'm starting
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to get really familiar with being on
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trains.
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This gentleman is also very very
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enamored
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with this building
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looking up
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this amazing structure.
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I took the Euro Star recently when I
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went to last month's country
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of the Netherlands. I went to Amsterdam
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in the Amsterdam area. That was my June
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country. My July country will be France.
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This is a massive sculpture like 20 ft
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from the feet to the heads, not
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including the base
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which is there.
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This is a vast difference. the amount of
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people in the queue
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when I went over to Amsterdam at the end
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of last month. I mean, it was like elbow
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to elbow so lengthy. Now there's like
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anybody in line. All right. Had to go
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through two checkpoints. One going out
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of the UK and then one going into the
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French police border patrol. Even though
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the line wasn't too bad getting through
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the checkpoints and security, once you
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get over into this area where all the
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train waiting areas are, there are a ton
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of people waiting for their platform.
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All right, that one is leaving. But that
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is not my train. In fact, that is one
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that's leaving an hour earlier before
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the one I have booked.
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Kind of hard to see, I guess, the glare
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up there, but there's a 1231 to Paris
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and there's a 1:31 to Paris. I'm on the
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131. All right, just got the alert.
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Platform 10.
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The floodgates
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have opened.
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I am in coach 7.
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Which way is seven?
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But for safety reasons, it's totally
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forbidden to left anywhere any suitcases
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or luggage next to the access door or in
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the corridors. We thank you for your
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cooperation.
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I don't know what it is about trains,
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but they're always a lot warmer than you
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want them.
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The star cafe are open and they are
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located in carriage 6 and 30. My
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colleagues will be very glad to serve
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you fresh drinks, hot drinks or
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selection of snacks and sandwiches. On
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behalf of all these crew, I wish you a
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very pleasant journey on board.
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Yeah, this train is clocking in at 147.
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Call it 148, maybe 150 miles per hour.
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It fluctuates when it goes a little bit
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up a hill then down a hill. Call it 145
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to 155.
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You having lunch? Yes.
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Some salad here
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Any drinks for you?
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Current time 510. Well 5:08 uh 5:07
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few minutes after 5:00 p.m. lost an hour
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heading from one country to the other.
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Hour time change. I am now even farther
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away timewise than my central Florida
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home of celebration. But I have made it
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for the first time ever. I am in France
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and first time ever in my entire life I
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am in Paris.
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here. My
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bags made it as well. I'm inviting you
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to join me.
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I'm here. Join me. Let's see where the
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rest of the afternoon and evening leads,
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shall you? Oh, you have arrived. Luggage
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tag.
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You have arrived.
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I think there is the public
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transportation with the trains, but
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since the taxis are right here, I might
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just go ahead and grab a taxi over to my
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hotel, which I am staying in very close
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proximity on a heatwave day. Extreme
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high temperature warning right now. It's
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98° at 5:14
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p.m. I'm staying right next Well, within
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eye view, really close to the Eiffel
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Tower. Another place I've never seen in
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person with my own eyes.
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All right, I just used the ATM here.
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ATM.
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Got some euros.
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There was a guy basically standing right
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behind me that was asking for some of
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it. I mean he was like right breathing
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down my neck basically. I told him no
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and he walked off but it was it was kind
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of awkward for a moment. He has sense
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now went off to ask someone else but he
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was right I mean literally was right
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behind there was also a lady at the ATM
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on this side. He was just like right
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here and he just kept asking asking
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asking asking like no and he finally
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left. Obviously I'm pretty used to
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people asking asking for money. Nothing
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wrong with that, but when it's right or
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by where you're using the ATM,
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closed personal space is kind of kind of
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weird. There's also a taxi area over
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here. Also, one thing I'm immediately
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noticing, a lot of people smoke here
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more than other places I've been. Seems
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more common place for people to just
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smoke cigarettes.
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First thing I noticed when I walked out
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This is like an interesting way to get
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to the taxi area. To get in the line
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that is slated for the actual taxis
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instead of having a random person that
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says they're a taxi driver as you're
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walking out say, "Hey, just get in my
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car." just to be um just seems a little
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more efficient than just waiting in the
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actual real taxi a lot
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just cuz I'm new around these parts.
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I went and checked into my hotel.
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A little time has passed. Not too much,
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but it's 7:45 p.m. right now, Paris
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time.
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And I went on the website and evidently
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the Eiffel Tower is usually open really
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late. It's open till like 9 or 10 each
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night and they illuminate it after dark.
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They do like a light show on it, I
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guess.
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So, my whole life, you know, seeing
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movies, European Vacation, Clark
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Griswald up there,
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Superman 2, the Lester version
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with Lois underneath the elevator going
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to the top. Countless TV shows,
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commercials,
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other productions,
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Saurin,
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Disney World, Disneyland, $1,1
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trying to sell some little miniature
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Eiffel Towers. And I thought by arrival
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for the first time in France, as soon as
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I got off the plane, I could come here,
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no matter how late it was in the
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evening, and go up to the top of it. But
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due to this heat wave, they have closed
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it.
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It's closed. I can't go up in it. I
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can't believe this.
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Well, that stinks. Here's their official
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site. Heatwave
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early closing due to the extreme
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temperatures expected in the afternoon
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and evening. Eiffel Tower will
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exceptionally close at 400 p.m. Last
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entry at 2:30.
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Due to high temperatures, protect
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yourself from the sun and stay hydrated.
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Fountains are along the path
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leading to the forcourt.
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visits are asked to postpone their
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visits till after Thursday.
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That's a couple days off. Yeah, this is
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only Tuesday
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and now they're saying
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after Thursday. Does that mean till
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Friday?
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Am I not going to be able to go up in
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this thing because of heat?
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See, this is really
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I've been up to the one that's like half
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the half the height, maybe 3/4 the
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height in Vegas, which is impressive.
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But that's not the real one. This is the
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real one.
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Was not meant to be on my day of arrival
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for the first time ever. I thought I was
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going to get out of the taxi, be go to
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the top.
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What an impressive impressive sculpture
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though,
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building, whatever you refer to it as.
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Impressive piece of architecture.
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Massive.
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A little checkpoint there,
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but again, not happening at the moment.
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I'm kind of curious to see if they're
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still going to light it up, though. It'
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be kind of neat to see it lit up.
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There's a couple different levels of it.
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You can go all the way to the top or you
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can go to that little section there. I
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think there's three levels. Of course, I
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don't know for sure cuz I haven't been
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up in it, but from what I can tell from
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the ground level,
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Probably for me it's standard warmness
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when it comes to, you know, Florida
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weather and humidity, but here this is
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most likely exceptionally
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hotter than normal. So
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that's the reasoning behind the
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closures. Maybe for the next two days,
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but for now definitely right now.
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Lots of street vendors out
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wanting to get pictures, sell you
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photographs, sell you miniature Eiffel
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Towers.
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Even some had beer, alcohol, champagne
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that they would sell. You have like a
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romantic photo
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in front of this if you so choose. And
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the boats going by underneath the bridge
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here right outside the tower itself. And
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there's there's more than just this to
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do in Paris. And I will be doing
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concentrating on more than just the the
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tower. But that was my game that was my
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game plan for the day. Take the train,
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go through the
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the English canal. What's it called? the
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canal.
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The English canal. Yeah. And then make
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my way over, go to a new country, start
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off with something I've always seen for
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my entire life, go up in the top of
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that, get go at top of that bad boy, get
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a view around
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the greater Paris area. But again,
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didn't happen.
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It is. Another thing I did not realize
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is that cars could drive not underneath
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it, but pretty close to underneath it.
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So when my taxi arrived, these are all
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taxis. Taxi, taxi, taxi. These are all
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taxis. Taxi going by there. Another
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taxi. The city bike.
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Just a a countless amount of taxis all
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going to this very impressive
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landmark.
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Dare I say one of the most impressive
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landmarks. you think of top 10 landmarks
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as far as buildings or structures go,
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this would be on that list. At least for
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me anyway.
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Oh, it's interesting that that bus over
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there is promoting the new Superman
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movie. And Superman 2, one of the two,
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not the Donner version, but the
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non-Donner version, Richard Donner
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version. There was a scene that happened
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right here.
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True story. The taxi driver started to
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cruise along this little thoroughare
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here. I was like, "Wow, I didn't
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realize."
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Buses
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going, you get a pretty I just kind of
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like put the camera out the window. Got
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a good view of it.
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And then I got to the hotel. The hotel I
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have has a balcony that'll give a nice
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little peak of this. So later on I'll be
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able to see if it's lit up or not.
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staying really close to the tower, which
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is just, oh my gosh, there's a big
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there's a big polar bear down here,
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which is completely the opposite of the
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weather that the polar bear should be
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surviving in in this heat wave.
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Didn't realize Paris had heat waves. The
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more you know,
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a big back up here. Everyone's trying to
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Oh,
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look at this thing. It's a Simpsons
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donut cart. Had the Simpsons on it.
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Let's go ride.
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Let's
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seems to be a very popular little
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alleyway where you can get the
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architecture on either side over here
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and you get the tower in the middle.
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Plus, it's in the shade at this moment
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which is really nice.
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Yeah, that's a good that's a good one
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right there.
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Oh, here you go.
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Just like in European vacation. Little
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restaurants and shops through here. I
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ended up getting a ballpoint pin that
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looks like a baguette. In fact, uh it is
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a baguette. You can't eat it though cuz
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it's just a ballpoint pen. But it's made
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to look like a piece of bread. A piece a
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uh a baguette. And I also got a little
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magnet right here. My first magnet here
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in France next to the tower. I remember
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I remember the tower.
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Yeah. Look at all these keychains here.
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They're all of the tower itself. Some
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really cute little merch of these little
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street vendors. Well, they're not street
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vendors. They're stores, but
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Lots of little lots of little eating
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establishments, shops, etc. A lot of
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outdoor eating, a lot of outdoor
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sitting.
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This has really turned into quite the
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vendor
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vendor area here.
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Can't tell if the light Oh. Oh. Oh, I
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just see elevators going up. Is it
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reopened? I just saw the elevator go up
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over there on that side
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of the pylon going up.
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All right, I'm at my hotel now.
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started to get a little warm. I went in
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the room and because of this heat wave
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that they're having inside of the
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building is a little toasty. So, I
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turned the air way down and it wasn't
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really cooling down. So, I kicked it
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down a couple more notches. And then I
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kicked it down as low as it was going to
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go. And after an hour of being inside
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the the room, I thought, "Something is
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wrong with my room." So, called the
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front desk and I asked, "So, is
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something wrong with my air? could you
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send someone up to either look at it or
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can I switch rooms because because it's
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really toasty and they said it is a an
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issue with the entire hotel. So it's not
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just my room and they said if it if it
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gets resolved then the whole hotel will
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be corrected. But I said okay well as
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long as as long as I know it's this not
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my room. So as of right now it is much
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nicer out here on the balcony than it is
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inside. Still a little warm. Still a
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little toasty, but not as warm as it is
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inside. And I'm noticing, well, after
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I've been talking for the last minute,
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that the tower is illuminated
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Right on the hour. It's 11:00 p.m. right
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now. There's the sparkle
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going up the Eiffel Tower.
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That's cool. That is so cool.
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A little zoom in there. It's like really
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sparkling as you zoom in a little bit
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more on it. Be kind of neat to go up in
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it at this, you know, this time of night
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when it's completely dark out with the
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the sparkles going on.
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Yeah, that is so cool. It's just like
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unreal to be here just like looking at
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this. I mean, I'm 50 years old. I'll be
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51 in August. And this has been
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something I always since as far back as
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I can remember knowing about and seeing
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and now just I'm standing right in front
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of it. It's just a thing. So, it's not
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like it's, you know, really in the grand
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scheme of everything. It's not super
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important, but I don't know, just the
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little things sometimes that are just
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exciting and magical and
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thrilling. Originally, I was going to
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get some food at one of the cafes as I
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was walking around outside a couple
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hours ago, and I thought, you know, I'll
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go back to the room. I'll order some
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room service where the air conditions on
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cuz it's really was really warm out
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there earlier. Still warm outside even
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though the sun is down. So, I ordered
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some room service. Now, the conundrum is
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do I eat in the room where it's really
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really warm? Do I sit out on the balcony
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where it's also warm, but at least
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there's a possibility of a slight
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breeze?
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The guy that brought it up to the room,
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I was asking him and he said every room
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is having the same issue. I guess
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because of the heat wave, people are
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having the air a little kicking it up
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and because all the rooms in the hotel
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have their air higher, that means that
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none of the rooms are getting the air
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that they accurately need. So, none of
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the air none of the air is working. I
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got some ceviche. I think that's
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ceviche. And some sort of a noodle dish
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right here. And then uh and a water
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bottle water there. Gl Well, glass glass
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water. This is my meal for the This is
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my meal for the night right here. And
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that's going to do it for today. Thanks
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for watching. Yeah, I'm not off to a
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really good start in Paris to be honest.
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The the the room is is not really
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comfortable at all. Very very toasty and
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warm. But I'm going to see tomorrow is a
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new day. Maybe things will be rectified
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or maybe the weather will cool down over
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the next couple days and hopefully can
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get up into the tower. I checked to see.
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And tomorrow they might be open, but
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they're not going to let anyone go to
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the top. They're only going to let them
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go to the first level. So, I don't even
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I might have to wait
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other days. We'll see how it goes. Well,
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thanks for watching. I'll see you in the
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next video. The vlog
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is over.