So, it was La Fête de la Musique last night - a fact that most people in Paris were aware of (either by making lots of noise, or being unable to sleep because of it!). The weather wasn't perfect, with a little bit of drizzle early on, but on the whole everything went really well.

We did the usual wander aimlessly around, although we pretty much know what to expect from each quartier by now. Around the Place des Vosges there's posh people trying to harmonise, over in the fifth it's the students definitely unharmonising (grunge will never die, it seems...), Chatelet is très tribal etc. The only area I missed was at the Place du Marche St Catherine (great square, long name), where most years there's some cool salsa dancing going on, only I think we got there too early this year, and everyone was just mingling around.

Anyway, I took some piccies with the ol' camera phone (forgot my proper camera, again!). Try to imagine being jostled from every direction with your ears whistling while standing in the shower - should give you an idea what it was like.