It’s 08h45 and I’m up. Not surprising you think? Think again. The morning after the Fete de la Musique is always quieter than any other, we were still wandering about listening to bands playing on every corner of our quartier, dancing “rock n’ roll” (yes even me!) in the streets at 2am this morning.

But this morning, at 8am to be precise, a dozen jack-hammers started jack-hammering away on our street installing the fixtures for ‘VELIB‘ the new bike system starting up in Paris this month. Bikes can be taken from any fixture and returned to any other fixture at any time, free for the user for the first 30 minutes of use. Brilliant idea. Brilliant plan. Just not so good this morning….