31 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Goblin
30 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Waitress
29 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Nails
28 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Blacksmith
In the smaller photograph he is explaining how the bellows work (by pushing on that piece of wood he has his hand on). Tomorrow we'll see what he is making.
The quality of all the displays, the costumes, the enthusiasm and energy of the participants - it made for a fascinating day and one could almost imagine how it might have been all those years ago - well, perhaps without the smells...
27 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Music whilst you Eat!
26 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Tour Guide
The tour guide gathers her charges. Whether this group are here specially for the Fête, I don't know as there are always loads of tour groups on the rocher. Can't be so easy to live here and have tourists walk past your door and under your windows all day long.
25 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Participation
24 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Parades
23 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Dressing Up
22 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century -Žilina to Sagres
I was intrigued with these guys' t-shirts. They are driving from Žilina in Slovakia (where they live) to Sagres in Portugal. Both cities are marked on their shirts. It will take them two weeks. They left Žilina the day before they arrived in Monaco. Here they pose just before the start of the Fête.
Hope you had a great trip, guys!
21 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Violinist
20 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Lunch
19 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Pirates
18 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Candle Maker
In the last photo, you see how the wax is kept liquid with the heat from the fire underneath. The little boy has a block of wood to stand on as he was too small to reach the vat to dip his candle into the wax.
The candles sold at 1 euro each.
You can see the candle maker's dog on Riviera Dogs today.
17 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Necklace
16 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Asses' Milk
This lady put some cream on my hand and it felt good, not greasy. I intended buying some before I left and regret I forgot.
15 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - Gunpowder
14 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Programme Lady
I wonder if they had red nail polish in the XVIIIth century?
We see the Palace in the background - note the weather, low cloud over le rocher and humid that morning. No wonder the wine was welcome.
13 August 2009
Fête XVIIIth Century - the Wine
It takes place on le Rocher, the part of Monaco where we find the Palace, the Oceanographic Museum and the Cathedral.
So come along, put on your 18th century clothes and let's have a good day out. And first...why a glass of wine, of course.
In the last photo, you see the wine cart being pushed towards the Mairie - the workers (and there were an enormous number of volunteers) were offered a glass of wine to help them through the day.
12 August 2009
The Opera House
A zoomed photo taken at dusk and from exactly the same position as yesterday's photo. The steeples you see are the casino building and specifically, the opera house, designed by Garnier.
Note the turquoise cupola far left. You can see a close up of this by clicking on the link.
11 August 2009
Dusk
10 August 2009
All Lit Up
The jury judges on creativity, technique and synchronisation with the music. In three weeks time it will be France's turn and then we'll have a result.
Note the yacht (centre, foreground of the main photo) with its swimming pool lit up. No one skinny dipping tho, which might have been fun.
09 August 2009
Hibiscus
My preferred photo in terms of image was the smaller one on the left but I felt the two with the wrought iron railings and view down to the port of Fontvieille tell more of a story. So here are all three!
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