That is to say, Lights Festival in Lyon.
Every year around the 8th of December Lyon gets a tourism boom. People come from all over France and Europe to come see this weekend event where the entire city of Lyon kicks off the holiday season (by that, I mean Christmas season). You can read about the history... some priest suggested something and all the good Catholic citizens of Lyon followed his suggestion. But the current state of the event is pretty cool.
Below is some video of where we started our night with the fête, but you could say that we began it about an hour earlier when we arrived in Lyon (an hour by train north of Valence) and bought our first, of many, many, vins chauds.
As I cannot describe the situation like the video may, I will just add that what the video lacks is the feeling of awe that flowed through the crowd as the lights came on and the production began. This is only part of what we saw, but it is a pretty cool thing to imagine seeing with 3,000 of your closest, smelliest, coldest Europeans.
Mind you, we didn't shoot this video. Our video is better, but shorter. But I tell you, the idea of settnig up a youtube account just to post one video when someone else has already done the work just seems silly. Oh well. Check out our photos from that night. You will see the wonderment and awe in our eyes!
- Patrick
p.s. There is really only one photo of me during the spectacle, and I look pretty unimpressed, but it was still very nice.
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2 comments:
jesus christ, you have a beard. does that mean you owe me money? or is it just a moral victory? either way, great photos.
Uh, Steve Zissou? You look incredibly thrilled in a few of those photos. THRILLED.
The show looks like fun. Glad to see you guys are getting around the country.
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