Le greve

28-10-2010
Originally uploaded by cspatrick

As we left the gare we could hear shouts and drums. Looking up one street which leads from the Comédie to the gare, we could see several hundred marching demonstrators. As we proceeded away from the gare (along a different street) we encountered another parade of marchers, this one pouring over a bridge and coming to merge with the first file of marchers. I would say that there were well over 1,000 marchers in this stream. We didn’t stay to see what was going to happen nor to see how many marchers there were, but I am sure the total was well over 2,000. We were happy to scoot home and be out of the way.