cheese, crackers, and fireworks

Yesterday was the 14th of July and the French national holiday. After a quick supermarket trip for brie, biscuits, and cheap wine, we headed to the Eiffel Tower to set up camp on a nice patch of grass where we enjoyed our food and the most scenic game of Bartok ever.

Hm...that big towery thing...looks familiar...

view from our picnic spot

After getting kicked out of our spot by some seriously unfriendly gendarmerie, we went to check out the setup for the festivities, namely a giant stage for a free conecrt tribute to French music.

Eiffel tower, stage at the end, and tour Montparnasse in the background

The concert itself was a little cheesy (and not quite to Tom's taste) but it was cool to see and all the French people were getting into it. I now know of a few random French popstars and we took part in a cool event. On a slightly cooler note...the special guest was James Blunt (which kept a singing-loudly Tom happy.)

Simona...we're getting older...

Not a bad shot for a free concert, huh? Finally afterwards there was a seriously impressive fireworks display set to Opera music for half an hour. I rated it better than any Sydney NYE (maybe cos of our spot though.)

Ka-BOOM!

Moving day tomorrow, so today has been a pretty chilled day getting ready. Zara came to town on Sunday for a pilgrimage to James Morrison's grave and some nice cheap crepes!
And back to work tomorrow for me.

Bisous
Amanda