Tubsy and Millie visited a small town in northeastern
France called Grandvilliers. This town was precisely on the centre
line for the eclipse, and the area was also predicted to have
the best weather in Western Europe (or the least bad!).
Cloud forecast for Picardy, 24 hours before
the event from Meteo
France
Path of Totality across France, from map by
Fred
Espenak
Luckily, it was a sunny morning and even using an
ordinary, hand-held automatic camera some pretty good photos came
out...
Click on these snaps to enlarge...
...and to view what Tubsy and Millie might have
seen if they'd stayed in England, click
here for a Quicktime Movie taken by The
Wellcome Trust in London on the Big Day...
