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Best pictures as Kinross Bastille Day Gala celebrates 50-year friendship with French twin town

Kinross marked its French connections with a Paris waiters race and spaghetti models of the Eiffel Tower

Perth Provost Xander McDade, Councillor CLaire McLaren and Richard Scott reach the finish line of the waiters race. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson
Perth Provost Xander McDade, Councillor CLaire McLaren and Richard Scott reach the finish line of the waiters race. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson

Kinross celebrated half a century of twin town friendship with a Bastille Day Gala packed with French-themed fun.

The town is marking the 50th anniversary of its own Auld Alliance with Gacé in Normandy.

So on Sunday, Perth and Kinross Provost Xander McDade kicked off an afternoon of competitions and entertainment to honour the occasion.

Perth Provost Xander McDade throws the first boule in the pétanque mêlée competition. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson
Husband and wife Isobel and Duncan McIntyre enjoy a game of boules. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson

The provost threw the first boule in a pétanque mêlée competition and started the ‘Paris-style’ waiters’ race. Smartly dressed competitors raced around the perimeter of Kinross Community Campus carrying a tray with a bottle of water, a beaker and a croissant on a plate with a napkin.

Perth Provost Xander McDade, Councillor CLaire McLaren and Richard Scott during the waiters race. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson
Competition was high as Perth Provost Xander McDade and Richard Scott race to the finish line! Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson

Other activities included a French flea market-style car boot sale, archery and putting.

And children and adults were encouraged to build a model of the Eiffel Tower from spaghetti.

Amanda Clark makes the Eiffel tower out of spaghetti. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson
Alasdair Scott, 13, has a go at archery. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson

The latest batch of twin town visitors from Gacé are due to arrive in Kinross on August 2.

The Kinross Twinning Committee is hunting for three host families to welcome two individual women and one married couple.

Contact the twinning secretary on 07935 458 667 for more information.

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