2007-06-29T03:32:44Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/europe-2007-april-5tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/162/5802007-06-29T03:32:44Zsursumcorda<p>Note that I added an update -- a link to a Gmaps Pedometer view of our train trip.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/162/5792007-05-07T16:17:13ZIrishOboe<p>Oh yes, that makes sense. The end is all blurred because I was really out of patience by then . . .</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/162/5782007-05-07T15:27:40Zsursumcorda<p>Thanks! You may actually have been the first to read it, or at least the first to read it carefully, because I'm sure Dad and Heather, at least, would have caught those mistakes and told me.</p> <p>About the Eiffel Tower: after discussing it with Dad, I think if you average your version and mine, you'll have about the truth. The elevator from the third (top) level to the second was fine, but at the second level you have to get off and switch elevators. There were two lines, one very long and one not so long. We got in the shorter one, but there was a reason it wasn't so long -- it never moved. We decided to walk down to the first level, which we hadn't seen on the way up, take a look around, then catch the elevator down from there. The walk convinced you that you didn't want to take your knee on the stairs from the first to the ground levels, so that's where we waited forever for the elevator that was defying the French Revolution. The other elevator (the one with the longer line at the second level) had stopped running by that time, so it was no longer an option. Does that square with your memory?</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/162/5772007-05-07T14:10:18ZIrishOboe<p>I'm not the first to read, am I? Or am I the only mean one to show you your mistakes? &quot;note to Janet—you're not crazy; it turns out savory crêpes are traditionally make with buckwheat flour!&quot; I believe you mean &quot;made.&quot; &quot;three and a half hour ordealvisit to the Eiffel Tower&quot; As I remember it, the elevator ride down to the second level did not go well. We waited and waited and none ever came so we took the stairs. I couldn't go from the 2nd level to the bottom because I'd already done so many stairs and was afraid I'd do in my knee for the rest of the trip.</p>