Eiffel Tower bonus material
Odds and ends not from the observation deck:
They're building a glass platform partway up where you can stand and look straight down. Most tourists didn't know this was here, and didn't check it out. During construction there's only a small glass section.
The elevator:
It curves:
You can also take the stairs. We took them down the last couple hundred feet, from the glass floor lower level.
In case you've ever wondered what the base looks like:
Do you think they got these from SSP?
The park at the base.
Yours truly.
View from the Trocadéro.