{"id":118,"date":"2017-07-16T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T09:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/travel\/?p=118"},"modified":"2019-07-04T05:59:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T05:59:57","slug":"bastille-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/travel\/2017\/07\/16\/bastille-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastille Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were lucky enough to experience Bastille Day on the 14th July. I am not sure we will ever experience being a part of such a massive crowd. Another life experience to add to the list.<\/p>\n

Arc de Triomphe<\/p>\n

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Some French Legionnaires agreed to pose with Nikki<\/p>\n

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A small part of the air display <\/p>\n

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Nikki did find a distraction or two from all the masculinity on display. Fortunately the stores were closed. <\/p>\n

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The next stop was to be Notre Dame, but it was time to admit that we needed some help. That came in the form of Dean who pedalled us there with some friendly banter along the way. <\/p>\n

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Notre Dame <\/p>\n

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We ended the day with the massive fireworks display. Photos don’t do it justice, but here are a few anyway. <\/p>\n

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We were lucky enough to experience Bastille Day on the 14th July. I am not sure we will ever experience being a part of such a massive crowd. Another life experience to add to the list. Arc de Triomphe Some French Legionnaires agreed to pose with Nikki A small part of the air display Nikki […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,9,6],"tags":[21,22,42],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-royandnikki","category-travelogues","tag-france","tag-paris","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/img_2859.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ocy4-1U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":126,"url":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/travel\/2017\/07\/17\/one-last-look-at-paris\/","url_meta":{"origin":118,"position":0},"title":"One last look at Paris","author":"Roy","date":"9 years ago","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was a bit of a catch up day. \u00a0We also used it to have a final soaking of the Parisian atmosphere. 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