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The Gallery – A Smile – Carnival fun in Nice

Trish Burgess Posted on21/09/201007/04/2016 Nice, The gallery 14 Comments

How’s that for some big, slightly scary, smiles.

My son Rory, aged just 13 at the time, took all of these photos when we visited Nice in February 2009 to see the annual carnival, a series of parades which last for about a month. There were about twenty floats measuring up to 60 feet high, interspersed with Notting Hill style dancers. Rory’s favourite was a fire-breathing dragon which was so massive it was quite terrifying. I preferred the silly frogs and the man on a motorbike.

There seemed to be no health and safety jobsworths in charge: you could stand wherever you liked even if your feet were likely to be mown down, and people were encouraged to squirt as many cans of silly string as they could get their hands on at everyone on the floats. I have to say the adults were by far the worst culprits; demure old ladies shrieking and laughing as they covered passing strangers with luminous goo.

Back at the hotel, toes gradually thawing, Rory and I were able to brush off the string quite easily as we had put raincoats on but daft old Dad had to spend a good while in the bathroom picking the stuff off his jacket. Can you imagine that being allowed in Britain – there’d be letters to the papers about ruined clothes, compensation claims etc, whereas in Nice everyone had a good chuckle and a bit of a rub down with a wet flannel.

  
This post is a Gallery entry for the theme of ‘A Smile’. For more cheesy grins, pop over to Tara’s website at Sticky Fingers.  The smiles are there to promote Dave Fowler’s Mona Lisa Million project which is well worth a look.

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14 Comments

  1. The Dotterel Reply
    21/09/2010 at 2:55 pm

    That looks amazing! I'm booking my trip there NOW!!

  2. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    21/09/2010 at 2:58 pm

    The Dotterel – I can't tell you how impressive it was. I've never seen the Spalding Flower Parade in the same light again.

  3. Steve Reply
    21/09/2010 at 7:20 pm

    They look very scary – but in a good way strangely! It must be like walking through a weird animation!

  4. Very Bored in Catalunya Reply
    21/09/2010 at 7:29 pm

    You've either got an exceptionally good camera or Rory is a brilliant photographer in the making.

    Great pictures.

  5. Michelle Twin Mum Reply
    21/09/2010 at 7:36 pm

    Looks like an amazing carnival but those smiles are VERY scary! Mich x

  6. Expat mum Reply
    21/09/2010 at 7:41 pm

    Wow – them's some great photos!

  7. Kelloggsville Reply
    21/09/2010 at 8:36 pm

    they are horrid, freaky clown, freaky euuuugh!

  8. Footballers Knees Reply
    21/09/2010 at 9:16 pm

    Looks fantastic! Btw, thanks for your comment on my earlier post, helps to know others are speaking from experience, thanks. x

  9. Cate P Reply
    22/09/2010 at 12:32 am

    Great pics, love all the colours. A budding photographer there 🙂

  10. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    22/09/2010 at 6:55 am

    Rory's camera was a little Sony Cybershot. He's had a camera from quite an early age – a great way to stimulate his interest, especially on holiday.

    Kelloggsville – you can come out now, the scary clownies have gone….oh sorry, there still there!

  11. spudballoo Reply
    22/09/2010 at 4:26 pm

    wow, what great photos too! Really clear and super composition.

  12. SusanKMann Reply
    22/09/2010 at 6:48 pm

    They are very scary, not sure if my clown is scarier either way between your pics and mine I'm having nightmares 😉

  13. Suzie @keatsbabe Reply
    22/09/2010 at 9:41 pm

    What fun! The colours are fabulous!

  14. sarah wu Reply
    23/09/2010 at 6:23 am

    Wow, it looks so fun, Kind of remind me of Disney World Parade expect they're not Disney Character. Your son is very talented.

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