Paris By Night Again, 2023

Our downstairs neighbor Rafaelle thoughtfully informed us a few weeks ago that May 27th was her 40th birthday and that there would be a blow-out party that evening, with many guests and music...and that, although we were invited, we might plan on spending the night elsewhere...if we wanted to sleep. Undaunted, we decided to stay out past midnight and then take our chances with earplugs...as campeurs, we've had considerable experience with noise. The music went on till 3, the conversations till 4, but it was OK, and we got to see more of Paris by night.

Roses, as sunset approaches

Looking up river from the Passerelle Leopold-Sedar-Senghor; 
sunset is the hour when the river cruise boats really come out

National Assembly

Sunset through the Grand Palais

Pont Alexandre III

Kid climbing area on the quai

Pop-up bottle shop

An excursion: we had planned on getting closer to the
Eiffel Tower, but at Avenue Rapp I remembered the famous 
portal and facade of 29 Avenue Rapp, one of the few really
great art nouveau monuments we had somehow missed in
all these years; so there's the portal

And the fuller facade; we vowed to come back in
daylight

We had some time to kill before the 11PM Twinkle Show and so
had drinks at a nearby bistro; watching people and watching people
dance on the passing Busdiscotheque

The Twinkle Show begins; we are at the corner of
Avenue Rapp and Rue du General Camou, enjoying
the same view that 29 Avenue Rapp enjoys 

Still photography just can't capture the wonder
of the Twinkle Show

So of course we video'd it, to be posted some day on
my poor neglected YouTube channel...