LONDON & PARIS: A TALE OF TWO CITIES - 2010

8 days incl. travel, or 7 days from London to Paris (RFF)

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Vacation Overview

Spend a wonderful week with your family in two remarkable cities! Begin with three nights in London and guided sightseeing that includes Parliament, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, and a “flight” on the London Eye for stunning views of the city. Board the high-speed Eurostar train and head to Paris for three nights and guided sightseeing that shows off the Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysées, visits Notre Dame Cathedral, and includes an elevator ride to the top of the Eiffel Tower. A farewell dinner celebrates the perfect vacation!
In the rare event that the Eurostar train is unavailable, alternative services will be provided.

Take A Break getaway

If you want to see and do it all but have limited time, Globus offers these fulfilling vacations that are one week or less. You can still get the best that your destination has to offer.

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A Vacation Story Eiffel Tower

Imagining Paris without the Eiffel Tower is like London without Big Ben or San Francisco without the Golden Gate Bridge. But no sooner had the architect Gustav Eiffel beaten his 700 competitors in the design competition for the 1889 Centennial Exposition, celebrating a century since the French Revolution, than a vocal outcry began to halt construction of the edifice. Three hundred famous French artists and writers signed a petition in the newspaper “Le Temps” denouncing Eiffel’s radically modern design as “useless and monstrous,” a blight upon the elegant fabric of the City of Light. Others critics were even more vicious, describing the proposed tower as a “tragic street lamp,” a gymnasium apparatus…incomplete, confused and deformed,” “a giant ungainly skeleton,” “a half-built factory pipe,” “a carcass” and even “a hole-riddled suppository.” Nature-lovers argued that it would disturb the flight patterns of Parisian birds. Even as the iron lattice began to rise, Parisians continued to refer to it by the less-than-flattering nickname, “the metal asparagus.” Of course, no sooner had the tower opened in 1889 than the rabid criticism evaporated.