hold still your taking a photograph

Proof that the French aren't totally f*ckin useless :-)

Serene..

It's bloody lovely though isn't it

beautiful....

Just like we will Buckingham Palace come the glorious day, considering we already own it and Liz as custodian is falling down on the job spectacularly and letting it fall down round her ears.

They get the Hoet de Ville, we get the Elephant and Castle shopping centre.

After running the French out, the Communist Vietnamese took over L'Hotel de Ville as The People's Communist Party Headquarters. And yet, no one is allowed in except government bureaucrats. Hmmm

It is certainly a beautiful building.

Commandeered, not quite the right words, as it was their country, the World knew in 1918 that Vietnam would go to war