Saturday, June 20, 2015

Le Fete de la Musique and a long walk

After the bike tour, we decided to walk to the end of the promenade and back, about a 6 mile round trip of top notch people watching.  I am sure there is normally a lot going on, but this day was unusually busy.  Turns out this is the annual music festival day and they expected 200,000 people at a free concert.  When we walked around, we were able to get close up to some of the groups practicing.  We saw a French star Shy'm and her dancers practice and later in the evening we saw them on TV performing live.  Zara Larsson performed and there were rumors that Jay Z was reported to show up, but we never saw him, even on TV.

Shy'm and her dancers practicing.  We saw them on TV later.  You could
see the back of the stage from our hotel and the massive crowd.

Stage during practices

View along the promenade.  Our hotel is the red roofed structure
along the shore on the upper left.

Lots of water sports going on

Not something we had seen before.  Similar to a Segway, but without
a handle.  These guys were moving along fairly fast.

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