A network of friends offers, via internet, to strangers to meet around a giant happy hour placed under the signs of conviviality and encounter. That evening, a rendezvous was held on the banks of the Seine in Paris. Testimony of participants in a festive and good-natured atmosphere.
The village of Pierrefitte sur Sauldre hosts a folk music festival accompanied by an aperitif. Atmosphere on the festival and testimony of spectators and an organizer.
Stylist Paco RABANNE predicted the end of the world and the fall of the MIR space shuttle to Paris on the day of the eclipse. Skeptics organized a party near his shop. After the countdown, which was followed by no debris falling from the station, the participants shared a festive aperitif.
The faithful do not pray when Father Jean-Marie VIENNET celebrates the Mass. He then invited them to drink the glass of friendship in the many communes in his parish. A ritual that man instituted to encourage exchanges. At Colombier Fontaine, meeting with this amazing man of the Church who for 25 years was very close to Abbé Pierre, and with the faithful who are very happy with this initiative.
Saint Etienne was for a long time the French capital of the bistro. It is still the regional capital with a coffee concentration of 1 per 250 inhabitants. Microsidewalk of regulars in one of these establishments. At the bar counter, some men explain why they come here, several times a day. Around a table in the room, three women say they like the bosses, the waiter, the clientele, the wine, the Martini and the lemon juice...
Around 8 pm at the counter of the Peano bar in Marseille, not far from the Vieux Port, an interview of regulars, who come here to meet their friends and have an aperitif.
Le maire d'un petit village de 400 habitants évoque la consommation d'alcool dans les campagnes : "On boit pas mal, ça fait partie des distractions quand on se retrouve... Mais les jeunes boivent de moins en moins d'eau de vie, c'est un changement d'habitudes, et peut-être plus d'apéritifs..."
Interviewed on his holiday spot, actor Lino VENTURA explains his passion for petanque: "Holidays without petanque, it’s not possible" he confides. After a game of pétanque, he meets his friends for a drink.
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