Don't even attempt to go to France if you can't handle lots of steps. The Metro has lots of steps, few escalators and even fewer elevators. One of the transfers required a 90 step march up a spiral staircase although it did point to an elevator. Restaurants have usually put the toilette in the basement with a steep staircase leading downward, not always with railings. The hotel in Paris stairway looked like this. I would go down it but not up. Mainly because there was no railing on the right on the way up. It traverses from floor to floor in a half circle.
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| Paris hotel stairs |
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| Paris hotel stairs |
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| Paris hotel stairs |
Total of 421 flights of stairs during the trip, high days were 53 and 55 floors.
One of the museums had s spiral staircase like this. I reached across my body with my good right hand to grab the railing. My left hand is worthless for this, it doesn't slide and I have to yank it off whatever it is clamped on.
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| Museum stairs |
