Spent a day in Paris on the way to Provence. Drank some wine, ate oysters, and generally walked around. Paris is unique. One of my favourite films is Midnight in Paris, by Woody Allen. Watch the opening scenes: it’s basically just a three-minute string of scenes from the city, accompanied by Sidney Bechet’s Si tu vois ma mère. To quote one of the characters in the film, ‘That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.’ It rained on me, and it didn’t matter. There’s something about Paris in the rain.