La Foire!

Saturday night, I went to La Foire à Quinconces! It's a big fair that's going on for about a month at Quinconces, which is a huge open square in downtown Bordeaux. We went at night to see all the lights, and the fair was so pretty!

It was pretty similar to the typical American fair, with the same rides (probably more blatant copyright infringement than Disney will let you get away with in the U.S. though), same carnival food, same carnival games. It was fun to see the French translations of different things. Cotton candy is "barbe à papa," and a candied apple is a "pomme d'amour." Also, one ride spelled Scooby-Doo "Scoubi-Dou" - see what I'm saying about the copyright infringement...

Quinconces is this massive open square (one of the biggest in Europe, Wikipedia tells me!), but there are also several historical monuments at the edges of the square. At one end, there is a huge fountain from the 1800's and there are also statues of Michel de Montaigne and Montesquieu (a famous French writer and a famous French philosopher, respectively). It was weird to see these historic statues in the middle of the neon lights of the fair.

The rides were really expensive - some of them were 6€! We did go on the Ferris wheel though. It was so pretty! And they let us go around five times, so it was worth the 4.50€. Bordeaux is so amazing at night, so it was incredible to see it from the top of the Ferris wheel! The Ferris wheel was actually really clean, and really well lit. It was so pretty without even riding it!

À bientôt!