The march started at Place D'Italie, which is about 10 minutes south on our street. They marched up our street and all the way to Les Invalides. All 350,000 to 700,000 of them. Yup...no typo with the zeros there!
The strike lasted from about 2:30pm to 5:30pm. Here are some aspects of their strike that DID not wake Michael up from his nap:
- Guys with percussion equipment: snare drums, timpanis on their chests...etc
- Girls shrieking at the top of their lungs
- People singing/chanting
- Leaders on their bullhorns
- Loud....VERY loud music
- Air horns
The noise lasted all 3 hours and it was SO LOUD. I can't imagine what it was like on the street. At one point, I looked out my window and couldn't see anything but smoke from the flares. Yup, they had red flares too.
But Michael slept through it ALL and didn't wake up until he was done with his 2 hour nap at 3:30. But as you know...the strike still was going on.
Here is a link to a newspaper website if you are interested:
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-823448,36-980685@51-979908,0.html
This is FRANCE! Gotta love workers striking b/c they can't retire at age 50!
Love,
P
