Thursday, May 09, 2013

V-E day celebrations


It's been very hard for me to fight the jet lag this time, but I think I managed to be almost back on track now. Proof is that today yesterday I managed to go out and take photos! Hence this one that I took on the Champs Elysées today where they had several marches to commemorate the end  of WWII. Tourists loved it! This band belongs to the Garde Républicaine which is the a part of the French Gendarmerie in charge of the security of Paris. Nice, but expensive... We just heard that it costs 280 million euros per year for only 3 000 men...
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Tags , , Photographed at Avenue des Champs Élysées, 75008 Paris, France

11 comments:

  1. jeffMay 9, 2013 at 3:42:00 AM GMT+2

    Very festive, and the weather looks great. Celebrating the end of wars is a great idea.

    The math tells us it is 93.300 euros per man per year. That's not much for a police force.

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    1. LudeMay 9, 2013 at 11:14:00 AM GMT+2

      Yes you're right actually, it's not that much. I actually read this article in Le Monde and did not bother to do the math!

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  2. krisz fuMay 9, 2013 at 7:07:00 AM GMT+2

    that's 93 333 euros/pax, what??

    Very nice though :)

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  3. tonton_flaneurMay 9, 2013 at 8:59:00 AM GMT+2

    Great photo...too bad so many people today don't even know how WW2 even started, hell...they don't know how the Iraq war started. It is a very special day and it will be for me as long as I am alive! The Garde Républicaine is amazing...I used to love to watch them ride horseback through Paris...I haven't seen them do that since the early eighties though. Do they still ride those beautiful horses in their uniforms?? Pageantry!! Merci for the shot... ;)

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    1. LudeMay 9, 2013 at 3:48:00 PM GMT+2

      They still do Tonton, they still do. They are definitely part of the French decorum, that is why I don't think they will disappear anytime soon, even if France is now broke!

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  4. StuartMay 9, 2013 at 10:57:00 AM GMT+2

    Nice shot! Even got blue skies just to prove it is possible this year in France.

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  5. vMay 9, 2013 at 8:40:00 PM GMT+2

    tsst tsst - yesterday 8th May was the end of WW2.

    why am I so sure?

    well,
    1) because I know
    2) in Scotland as elsewhere in the UK it is VE Day - Victory in Europe Day
    3) my birthday is on 8 May
    4) and my name is Veda (nothing to do with VE Day, in fact - I was named after my mother)

    Don't tell me you have been getting it wrong in France for 68 years?

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    1. LudeMay 9, 2013 at 11:11:00 PM GMT+2

      Ohhhhhhhh I see. Well, yes you're right, it was "today" when I wrote the caption, but it was "yesterday" when the photo was published!

      Happy birthday Veda BTW ;-))

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    2. vfMay 10, 2013 at 9:59:00 PM GMT+2

      Merci Éric!

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  6. AlexaMay 9, 2013 at 11:20:00 PM GMT+2

    You're lucky you didn't get marched on! The risks you take to bring us great photos . . .

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