Streetview

Google has now expanded streetview to cover Paris. Search for cité Voltaire 75011 and you can have a look at where we're moving to on Saturday.

Rugby

We went to watch a heineken cup game on Saturday afternoon - stade francais against llanelli scarlets. It was pretty close at half time but ended up being an easy win for the French team. The tickets were only ten euros, which is not bad to watch a bunch of international players, though we were only standing around the edge of the ground. Next time we might splash out on some seats. The atmosphere was very good, though there were fewer welsh fans than we were expecting. We did at least hear them singing their song (the "who beat the all-blacks" version).

Nuit blanche

It was the nuit blanche on Saturday, where the modern art museums stay open all night, and various random contemporary art things take place all over the city. Of course it's all a bit corporatised, you're unlikely to see anything really cutting edge, but we took a stroll around anyway to see what was on offer.

The eglise s Eustache has a long tradition of contemporary art - it has a contemporary crib every christmas and artists compete to get the chance to do it - so they were open all night for the nuit blanch showing a film about blind men encountering an elephant. It was pretty cool, though the sound wasn't too great.

In front of the gare de Lyon, they were filming a bollywood film all night. A real one, to be shown in cinemas, with real dancers shivering in saris in between takes. There was a huge crowd and lots of cheering but it was hard to get a good vantage point to watch.

We also watched a short film on sentimental geometry, featuring a little square that moves around, which was quite cute. Unfortunately, while we were watching, a windows warning message 'your virus database is out of date' popped up. Bloody microsoft - spoil everything.