As we wait for GANNET2 to be refurbished we try to keep ourselves entertained and Layne is excellent at looking up places to go and things to do. Saturday was TV tower day.
It’s 224 meters tall, or 735 feet in old money, and it includes an observation deck as it is in the middle of the city with superb views. Or so I’m told because guess what? 
They are replacing the elevators, a job they started last October and will complete, they promise, in September 2029. God knows where I’ll be by then but probably not here. 
It opened in 1965 so I suppose maintenance from time to time to is probably a good thing. Layne had wanted to check it out for a while so we were glad to get there. And I will point out that as we stood struggling to communicate with the guard several Brazilians came up expecting it to be open. Even our Uber driver when we left was surprised to hear it is closed. So we aren’t just uninformed out-of-towners…so at that point we mooched around and took some pictures. What else was there to do? For a start we could have taken roller skating lessons:
Imagine this view from 700 feet up:
A modest leash.
And Layne has since located a digital tower that apparently is open to the public. 
It’s a ways away but that won’t stop us as we’re nothing if not intrepid.
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