Bastille Day

With the Bastille Day Parade over, and breakfast consumed twas time to move out but there was an unexpected flurry of activity at the intersection at Montparnasse with the some the military vehicles that been in the Parade were moving through other parts of Paris with applause from the waiting pedestrians

You can see a military jeep in position - behind the motor bikes, on the centre island

For lunch, do we buy some fruit or ...

or pastries

It was quite a process to purchase the pastries, each counter of different varieties, giving you a docket to take to the check out counter to then pay for your collection of loaded paper bags. With lunch delights sorted it was across the road to head through a park

Jardin Du Luxembourg

And zooming in for a little detail of two cell phones, one being used for a selfie.

Now if I can line up my flag in the foreground of the photo

Square du Vert-Galant. Not sure what the guy with the white cart was selling - icecream? Cranes in the background indicate construction of some form. I guess the golden colour is because most of the love padlocks are brass.

Jeantine moving in to get a close up of the love padlocks - which have proved to be a concern through all the extra weight they place on bridges, see this story in The Guardian.

While there is this captive audience, why not hustle for a Euro or two, An interesting thought on this type of activity, from a travel tips article ...
The scam: A group of people will be gathered around a person doing a trick—maybe a card trick or one with the cups and a hidden ball underneath one of them. A few people in the crowd will actually be friends with the magician who will call on a random audience member to guess a card or a cup.
As they're thinking and concentrating one of the members in the crowd will pickpocket them. You may win the coin worth 50 cents but your wallet will be gone.
More on this park from Travel France Online Jeantine and Barb head down the steps while I video the action and the guy doing his hustling with slight of hand can be heard still working the crowd

Time to eat our Patisserie treats