paris

scottish football fans invaded the streets of paris for the weekend france/scotland game. we first found them singing and drinking in outside of an irish pub near bastille. We walked around the parks near the eiffle tower and the louve museum, we bought a loaf of bread and fed the crumbs to these cute little brown birds untill a swarm of pidgons took over. over by the eiffle tower a group of woman with no shoes begged for money going from tourist to tourist. I saw a young woman walk up to a muslum man and speak to him in arabic. he gave her some coins and immediatly the rest of the woman all crowded around him. he gave them all the coins he had. In the grass near the eiffle tower the scots were playing pick up games of socker. The games were intense, hundreds of drunk scots, shouting and cheering. I can't imagine the french/scot game being more exciting. This one particuralydrunk fellow started messingup the game by stumbling around and slide tackling everyone. it was imossible to tell what team he was on. eventualy he got into a fight and kicked one of the goalies in the leg. The whole crowd of scotts booed and yelled at him to get out, eventualy singing, “are you english in disguise!” over and over.