Yeah also Madrid has that vibe - all the European youth congregating together, a real buzz in the air, they can afford to go out. Something London has lost sadly...

It's the kind of thing you get so used to you don't notice it until you do and then it drives you mad. Just pointless noise pollution from a bygone era of overzealous and poorly thought through 'elf n safety regulations

Hard to disagree with any of that really! Apart from chestnuts, nothing wrong with chestnuts! In the Cévennes we're practically weaned on them!