I am just watching (live, but sadly via the TV) the hugely enormous military parade that takes place on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. Wow. Marching bands in all their finery, jets performing a fly-over with coloured smoke in red, white, and blue, tanks rolling along towards the Arc de Triomphe, parachutists armed with the French and EU flags jumping out of planes, floating down over Paris and then landing right in front of the French president... Not too shabby.
There will be a military parade here in Gap this afternoon. There will surely be less fanfare than in Paris, but hopefully lots of handsome French soldiers and firemen all the same! This evening, Francois and I have been invited to a "garden party" (I'd give you the word in French, but they use the English term so what can I do?) Such parties seems to be a typical way of celebrating Bastille Day. That plus fireworks, which happen tonight at 10:30. C'est la fête!
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