We slept in quite late today. Our apartment is very dark with the shades drawn so the sun doesn't naturally wake us. I guess we're also still catching up with jet lag time zone differences.
We headed out in the afternoon to stock up on grocery items, fresh bread and some French wine for the next few days over New Year.
Came back to our apartment and enjoyed some dips, vin rouge and snacks and then cooked dinner.
We headed out around 11pm down the street to the Champs-Élysées and then over to the Tour Eiffel. As expected it was very busy out in the streets. Many were tourists, and of course there were many young locals out and about enjoying their New Year, often to the detriment of others. Some of the streets (rue) here are lit up quite beautifully with holiday decorations.
There were scattered fireworks around but nothing exciting at all. It was all very small scale.
We ended up coming back home around 1:30pm. There were plenty of drunk and young hooligans everywhere by this time making fools of themselves and shouting out throughout most of the night. Our apartment is six floors up but we could still hear the shouting so had to resort to earplugs to get to sleep.
Today's Weather
Raining. Temperature at 2:30pm: 11 C
