An Evening in Paris

I do not remember if I watched the movie “An evening in Paris” but I loved the song “Raat k humsafar” from it. Typically, I always associated Paris with Eiffel tower. Therefore, It was forever in my bucket list to see the La Tour Eiffel, up, close, and personal.

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Did you know that Kalki Koechlin is related to Maurice Koechlin who designed the Eiffel Tower?

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Maurice Koechlin and Kalki Koechlin

Eiffel tower in the evening looked mesmerizing but the neighborhood looked intimidating with lots of African hawkers literally forcing tourists to buy the Chinese made replicas of the tower and other souvenirs. When the hawkers heard the police siren in the distance they immediately folded their merchandise in a cloth that was previously acting as a display spread and ran away wherever they could. But as soon as the police patrol left the hawkers came back within minutes. I wonder where they were hiding.

The service road that led to the tower was muddy as it had rained in the afternoon. It was so muddy that we literally stained our shoes. Never expected this kind of “kichar” in a first world city