Mike,
I looked for strikes & demonstations on a walk near the Obs de Paris this afternoon, but within a mile radius, saw only passive Parisians, blooming forsythias and rampant daffodils. Dang. And I brought my camera along to get some interesting shots. Maybe I’ll head over to the Place du Republique this evening.
–rakkity
4 Avril 2006 on continue
Greve et manifestations
il est vital que tous nous soyons encore plu
nombreux
Pour dire NON
Pour exiger le RETRAI pur et simple du CPE, du CNE, du Contrat senior
Le mardi 4 Avril
Tour dans la greve et les Manifestations
A Paris: Depart Place de la Republique a 14 H 30
It seems you may have spoken just a bit too soon. I just walked through the lounge of my house here in Chicago to see MSNBC (who watches MSNBC?) displaying helicopter-pictures of protestors running around some park in the Plaza d’Italy (wherever that is–I’ve never been to Paris). There seemed to be a certain amount of milling about and yelling, a few people throwing things at police, but nothing all that exciting.
Mark & Michelle (stepson & girlfriend) were just in Paris for a day last week — took the Chunnel over from London, where they were vacationing for a week. They hoofed an improbably impressive amount of the City in the allotted amount of a day and saw no signs of unrest either …
Are you on the other side of the Pond for work, or as the first official roving blog correspondent?
I’m here for a workshop of the high energy X-ray team analyzing solar flares, but I’ll report to the blog on anything interesting I happen to see. So far, it’s been lots of great croissants, amazing old architecture, excellent bourgone wine, and learning new stuff about the sun.
This afternoon I’ll send a picture or two.
Did the recent eclipse give your group useful new info?