Fireworks and Christmas lights

On New Year's Eve, we went to a party at the home of some of our British friends, who live in the downtown area. We were able to go up on their roof around midnight and watch the fireworks that were being shot off from the castle downtown. It didn't photograph terribly well, but I did get a few good shots.


At the end of the display at the castle, it looked like the castle was on fire, as seen below.


It was a nice display, and there were people shooting off fireworks all over town, so we could watch them all around us. We could hear the music and the countdown from the castle quite clearly from where we were, so I can only imagine how loud it was for the people who were actually in that square. The piazza downtown was still very crowded when we came through about 1:30, so it was probably packed at midnight. I stopped and took some pictures of the Christmas lights downtown on the way home that night.

Here is the downtown Christmas tree lit up.

The others are examples of the different kinds of lights strung across the streets throughout downtown.