My Big Arty Shots of Tour Eiffel on Bastille Day, just before the fireworks show celebrating the 120th anniversary of "La Tour".
Tanks in Place d'Alma.
Our friend Tony (orange checked chemise) At the Bastille Day Parade July
14 in the area of Champs Elysees and Place de L'Alma.
(Left) French (we hoped and assumed) military jets flying over L'Arc de Triomphe along the Champs Elysees.
Below: At Metro station Abesses, in Montmartre.
Followed by (right): Pile of crap in our apartment.
La Tour Effeil (The Knick-nack) from a Bangladeshi street vendor. I bought it on the eve of Bastille Day. It is powered by batteries and turns colours. Makes a great night light, I might add.
I'm quite proud of how I shot it on the ironing board of our Montmartre apartment.
Monica got the first shot below of some German soldiers on the Pont Alexandre III on Bastille Day. To note the irony would be to state the obvious, and I will.
Quelque station de metropolitain a Paris. Je m'ai oublie le nom.
Pleasure Boats on the Seine River.
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Monica and Tony. Can't quite place this shot for some reason...
Once you can get over the garbage in the streets and the oui-oui in the metro stations, Paris is really not a bad place. And to be fair, it's only certain districts that are covered in garbage, and it's not the piss but the smell of it that's so digusting. And yes, some of the ancient cobblestones and the 1000 year old cathedrals are a little run down, but I'm sure the French can have it looking like Mississauga in no time at all if they put their minds to it.
It was tons o' fun to be here for Bastille Day...the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison on the 14th of July back in 1789.
Plenty of military hardware and soldiers in the streets, and a parade that included Nicholas Sarkozy, el presidente de la Republique.
Also, the Tour Eiffel is celebrating its 120th anniversary this year, so they had a Big Bejeezus fireworks show there starting at 10:45 - p.m. You'd have thought they would have gotten around to nailing up the siding on La Tour in time for the big soiree after 120 years and all, but this being Europe I'm guessing there has been a strike by some semi-skilled labour union. For 120 years.
Nailing up the siding? You Philistine! I say, you can come and nail up siding at our place anytime...
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