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Sacre Coeur Fireworks at Monmartre Harvest Festival (Paris 2012)
The weekend of October 13-14 sees the annual celebration of the Harvest Festival (or Fête des Vendages) in Montmartre. Each year the grapes at the Clos Montmartre — Paris’s only operating vineyard — are picked and made into what the New York Times reportedly called the most expensive bad wine in the city. To celebrate this, fireworks are set off at the Sacre Coeur, and this year I made the trip for you.
Sacre Coeur Fireworks at Monmartre Harvest Festival (Paris 2012)
Sacre Coeur Fireworks at Monmartre Harvest Festival (Paris 2012)
Sacre Coeur Fireworks at Monmartre Harvest Festival (Paris 2012)
Sacre Coeur Fireworks at Monmartre Harvest Festival (Paris 2012)
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© 2012 Paul Prescott
Love that first photo — a stunner! And the one of the kid covering his ears is too cute.
So glad you went out to see the feu d’artifice and celebrate the harvest season of the grapes for the some of the worst wine ever (allegedly, I don’t think I ever tried it, but it does not stretch the imagination to understand that it is not great! Plus I have it on good authority that it’s not fantastic).
Good on ya!
xx
Karin
Thank you for the encouragement! I might not have gone without your Facebook nudge. Thanks for the props, babe.
See you in the streets,
Paris Paul
I agree with you: the first pic is absolutely spectacular!:) Good work Paris Paul!:)
Thanks Duchesse! What a nice thing to say.
Thanks for the comment and see you in the streets,
Paris Paul
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a cool festival in the coolest neighborhood ever. sad to have missed it.
Next year!
I’ll save you a place.
See you in the streets,
Paris Paul