Wednesday, March 4, 2009

The Auld Alliance of Bagpipes (and silly costumes)


So I won't bore you with the story of how busy and how preggo I've been for the last month. I'll just post something that I've had on my camera for a couple of weeks and leave it at that...

Over the weekend of the 14th, Paris was inundated with Scots who came to watch the 6 Nations rugby match between Scotland and France. The Republique de Montmartre took this as an excuse to throw a parade.

The Republique de Montmartre seems to have a parade about once a month, whether it's to celebrate wine (which seems to happen quarterly) or classic cars, or the new year, or Saint's days, or, well, whatever they can dream up. This particular weekend, it was bagpipes, both Scottish



and Breton



and, of course, it was an opportunity for loads of people to dress up like Aristide Bruant and strut their stuff down rue Caulaincourt.

3 comments:

Cezar and Léia said...

Bonjour Angela!
So happy to see your post again! I hope you are fine! Take a time to rest , please!Great post!
C`est Impressionant!
Au revoir!
Léia :-)

Peter said...

Too bad you didn't advise about this in advance! I would have been going! :-)

Aristarkhos said...

I say! Congratulations are in order...for delivering one baby (APEsphere) and on course for the next one. :)

It's been ages since I visited your blog. I even lost the URL...dug it out of the comment you left in one of my posts. That took some doing.

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