Rugby ball and Eiffel Tower

The Rugby World Cup starts tonight and over the past weeks the media has been educating this soccer loving nation the rules of the game which is mainly played in the SW of France.
Many bars and cafes of the city are decked out in the colours of 'Les Bleus' the French team, while some bars have adopted other national teams. Cafe Oz has the colours of 'Les Wallabies'.
My local cafe had the staff all decked out as Les Bleus. The foreign team with the most press in Paris is that of New Zealand. They are fascinated by the hakka and the tattoos. The All Blacks advertise for Toyota, some insurance company and something else which I have forgotten. The New Zealand tourist authority must be radiant.

Père Lachaise cemetery

Père Lachaise cemetery is silent and quite peaceful and visiting it is a bit like being on a treasure hunt as you seek out the famous buried there - I found the writers, Proust, Collette, Balzac, Wilde and of course every druggies favourite - Jim Morrison.

 

This afternoon visited La Madeleine church, designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleons army.

The cinema tonight was an animated film called "Persepolis". An adaption of a celebrated comic book about Iranian society as viewed by a young girl and her family in Tehran. Four stars.