Woah!
Of course Edinburgh was invaded by the French for the rugby on Sunday afternoon.
Hoards of them streaming through the streets with big smiles and great joie de vivre - that's about the extent of my French. But one thing that is international is a big smile. A grand....em...smile. Told you I don't speak it though I do love the sound of it.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday the restaurants in Edinburgh were rammed. These photos you can see are Saturday and Sunday lunchtime at Howies Waterloo as we hosted huge parties of French folk raring to go to the rugby. Wine, whisky and a 3 course meal, a cup of black coffee and they were off.
Literally in under 2 hours they had been, eaten and whizzed off.
Several things were interesting to observe. What a good looking lot the French are - there was a lot of eyeball exchanges between the staff as they all arrived, looking stylish and beautiful/handsome. Sorry I digress....only 3 out of the hundreds drank milk with their coffee. The ladies in the group didn't have sweet and they were in very good voice as a great French band arrived complete with tuba...you can just about make it out in the photo...quite surreal the whole thing. But what fun.
Even more fun for them later as they beat Scotland at the rugby at Murrayfield - c'est la vie as they say.
C'est la vie.
I met a bunch of French guys today in another restaurant ....sorry folks.....and one of them said he was the 'le streaker' at the match !! Said that the Edinburgh police were ' tres tres villain avec lui ' .....What a bunch of jokers but I agree , easy on the eye !!
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