A bientot, Paris

You may have heard about the evacuation of the Eiffel Tower on September 14 due to a bomb threat. Possibly triggered by the Senate's vote to ban full-face headscarves in public places, or perhaps by the indifference of the government to the recent general strike over raised retirement ages.

I got an email from a friend who had heard about it, saying "The odds you were there are so remote."

And yet, we were.

So here is the Tour Eiffel in all of her glory, as rarely seen with only two people on it looking for bombs, and from what we read later, a couple of sniffing dogs.

The searchlights were working.

The twinkle lights were working.


The street lamps were working.
But this is as close as we could get.

Until next year....