Digested week: central Paris becomes a steel-clad ghost town

France still doesn't have a government but at least it can unite in the joy of seeing Parisians even more peeved than usual

Getting to the Left Bank is easier said than done. Actually it's fine by metro, but crossing the river by any other means is, temporarily at least, a bit of an ordeal: innumerable detours for closed bridges, and cops as confused as you are.