Au Revoir Paris

The people of France gave us a great send off Sunday. A parade in the morning and fireworks in front of the Eiffel Tower last night. We were quite touched and honored. They also called it French National Day or as we in America mistakenly refer to it - Bastille Day.

France still has a regiment of Calvary.

The horses (for obvious reasons) were the next to the last parade unit. 

And for that final touch up work, the men in green.

Alas, fireworks pictures did not turn out well. We got home after midnight because the fireworks did not start until 11:00pm. Because Paris is so far north it does not get dark until then. The sun does come up around 5:00am.

Tomorrow we travel to Belgium. Subway to Paris North station, train to Brussels, train to Brugge, train to Oosteade, and lastly a tram to Westende for a two week stay on the North Sea.