Bastille Day

Making a flypast look easy..

Bastille day is a big thing in France. It celebrates an important moment in the French revolution. there were parades and an amazing flypast. We didn’t see all of it, not having got up at some horribly early hour to get the best place to watch. But what we saw was awesome.

It’s easy to look cool from the back of a horse..

Once we’d had our fill of the parade we got on the Metro and headed to an amazing Science Museum. This is in an enormous park. There’s a planetarium and a submarine, and we saw both.

I managed to explore the submarine without banging my head. Go me.

After dinner it was time to head up to the centre of Paris again for the fireworks display. Forty years ago I managed to watch the display from the Champ de mars right next to the tower. This time we were a bit further away, but the spectacle was no less impressive.

Not bad for an iphone picture..

I didn’t think that you could make a firework display last half an hour, but they managed it. And it was all wonderful. We were on Pont Neuf, one of the bridges over the Seine. We had a great view of the top of the tower. Any closer and it would have been much harder to see. After the display we wandered back to the Metro station and were back at the hotel in twenty five minutes. Great stuff.