Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!
 

Happy Bastille Day!

Word to the wise ...
 

Dress appropriately for la fête de la Bastille. The Police de la mode/Fashion Police are out in force today.

We celebrated a day early with Ratatouille for dinner last night.

Happy French Day ya Frenchies.

I think I'll open a chilled bottle of Beaujolais this evening to celebrate

I always think back this day on our bizarre Bastille Day happenings in Paris with Gemini Cricket and Isaac and Ralphie. Hahahaha, what a night! Isaac never forgave me, I think. But sharing fireworks at the Eiffel Tower with half of Paris, missing the last train out of town, walking all over God's creation, being kicked out of Gemini Cricket's flea-bag hotel, and sleeping on a park bench in front of Notre Dame while drug deals went down till dawn .... HELM!

The night I made iSm homeless. Ah, memories.

:D

... with not a franc* to my name, and all the ATMs already closed. Dumping me unceremoniously in a bad neighborhood of the Montmatre. Sweet times.





* ok, with not a Euro to my name, but franc makes for a much more romantic sentence.

And to celebrate, I shall surrender.

Finished off the Beaujolais I'll be moving on to sidecars next, and possibly a viewing of Quills

True fashion police would never wear those shorts

To the guillotine for zem!

I think my celebrating last night could be considered training for tomorrow night

I saw some marching and singing on TV. No fireworks. They were on 13 July where I am staying. It passes relatively unobserved around here actually. Nothing like July 4 for the US.

On my first trip to Paris, in 1997, we left town the morning of the 14th. Our hotel was right off Champs Elysees. At 6AM, when our tour bus drove us out, the Champs was lined as far as I could see with tanks. So, at least in Paris itself, they relatively observe it.

Yes, that's what I was watching on TV. Most everywhere else, maybe some fireworks, a speech in town square, but not much decoration or fanfare in most of the Haute Savoie or Frache Comté regions.