Monday, 10 October 2011

A quiet day

All Seasons hotel: All you can eat breakfast including triple expressos and honey bagels.  It was a hard week!!


 

The original total height of the tower was 365 metres (1,198 ft), but it rose to 368 metres (1,207 ft) after the installation of a new antenna in the 1990s. The Fernsehturm is the fourth tallest freestanding structure in Europe, after Moscow's Ostankino Tower, the Kiev TV Tower and the Riga Radio and TV Tower". There is a visitor platform and a revolving restaurant in the middle of the sphere. The visitor platform is at a height of about 204 metres above the ground and visibility can reach 42 kilometres on a clear day. The restaurant, which rotates once every 30 minutes, is a few metres above the visitors platform (originally it turned once per hour; the speed was later doubled following the tower's late 1990s renovation). Inside the shaft are two lifts that shuttle visitors up to the sphere of the tower within 40 seconds.

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