Bastille Day - 14 July 2007 / Fireworks from the Fourviere Hillside

For a Saturday, most of Lyon was rather quiet. As today marked the official beginning of the long summer vacation, there were few buses running in the street and I spent a lazy day indoors.

At 22h30 I ventured out hoping to catch the fireworks being held up on Fourviere Hills which look out over the Saone river and Lyon, but as I stepped outside I noticed people waiting to watch the fireworks from higher ground. And so I decided to watch the whole thing from the comfort of my sixth floor apartment, which looks out upon Fourviere and the cathedral near where the fireworks where to take place.

Followed was a magnificent, twenty-minute show, with flying-saucer like fireworks, colorful flower patterns, that went on-and-on for 20 minutes. I took video of it and I'm hoping to figure out how to upload the material from YouTube.


P.S. Figured out how to do it. Just click on the video screen below, once, then once again to replay the video. Enjoy!