A wander to the Champs-Elysees in the evening is always a good way to kill time, on a Monday night it is also a very quiet way to kill time, because the place is hardly what you'd call busy.
The Eiffel Tower seemed to have been adorned with a massive searchlight at the top, and lots of sparkling lighting all the way up it - quite clearly visible from the bottom of the Champs-Elysees, and a very impressive sight. A quick trip into Fnac and Virgin, the 2 big record stores in Paris, revealed that James Blunt is being very heavily promoted all over, with great success. If the French like him that much, maybe we should just revoke his passport and donate him to them forever (the Americans are also eligible for this generous offer).Paris in the springtime is indeed lovely - although chilly, there is a clear temperature difference from London, and the place is starting to wake up and blossom again. Waking up myself in a hotel room and watching the news, you can tell that Spring is starting - the students are on strike, and protesting outside their universities. Very typically French - except that in the middle of winter, they have sit-ins indoors in the warm instead.
Finally, I have sat through enough meetings at work, in enough different office locations, and eaten more than enough mediocre "meeting" sandwiches for lunch. The French don't do things quite like that - it is an insult to their love for food. In Paris, there are companies that deliver a full lunch in a big box, for people in meetings. 3 courses, loads of bread and cheese, and all tasting amazing. Somebody in London had better start doing this, or I may do it myself and make my millions.
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