Manifestation (demonstration) at Bellecour?

After riding the metro back from Stade Gerland on Friday, where I watched an OL game, I stopped off at Place Bellecour to pick up a free magazine distributed in the parking lot under the plaza.

When I got there (and mind you, this is 11 o'clock at night), in-line skaters had gathered on the plaza and were holding informal competitions using small cones around which they spun and turned -- something like a cross between ice skating and those car commercials where you see cars navgigate a line of cones on a racetrack.

It was encouraging, nevertheless, to see that there are some people for whom drinking is not the only pasttime on weekends, and to see firsthand the size of the community of in-line skaters here in Lyon. Roll on!