Cirque d'Hiver

Another home weekend in Paris dawned but Rach had organised tickets to the circus for Saturday night. It's not a circus in the traditional sense - it doesn't travel. They hold it in a permanent 'theatre' and it sbeen run by the same family for ages. You can see the building behind me in this photo.
The circus didn't start well, the lions were first and both Rach and I were not impressed. The lions did not look happy and was a bit cruel to be teaching them tricks when they should be out roaming the plains. But it improved from there. The clown was very funny and a good break in between the various acts. The acrobatics were pretty amazing - absolutely beautiful some of them. I was looking forward to the horses but with the arena being so small there was not much they could do. The scariest one and the one we had the best view of (since we were at the back!) was the tight rope, the girl carrys the guy on her shoulders blindfolded and singing the whoel time - pretty amazing! Here's a photo I stole from another website!

The weirdest thing about that act was that the woman did not look strong or toned at all, she looked liked she'd just walked off the street with no training at all!