25 Dec 2019
When my wife mentioned about this event I thought would be a large bonfire with people around celebrating something, a local tradition or something old brought by the French people. I’m generally open mind with new things, so I didn’t object to go. After one hour bus drive we were there. The event: It was a large burning on the levee with around 80 bonfires, 10ft tall. I asked to the locals why so many bonfires, nobody was able to tell something that makes sense, even from religious point of view, one family told me that the father of the man organizing the bonfire used to do that and he keep doing it, “ it became a family tradition”. I don’t want be negative but after all bonfire lit up the scene was very close to my view of apocalipse: Fire everywhere, hot temperature, dark skies and intoxicate smoke smell. This is a no sense event organized by the community, If you care for your health and little one health don’t go to this event, it is intoxicate. If you care about the planet, pollution and the effects on the atmosphere, don’t go either. You are going to be part of the destruction and pollution. It is bad, specially on Christmas eve.