Had just arrived in Paris for a long weekend..came out of the Metro straight into a fireman's strike and demonstration. Noise of shouting and sirens and loads of smoke from fires being lit in barrels and yellow and red smoke coming from flares being let off all over the place. At one end of the street the police and police vehicles and at other end the council waiting to clean up the mess once it was all over! Once the demo was over..in came the dust carts etc and place was clean within 15 mins!