A trip on a hot humid day up to the area I was really interested in seeing. Loved seeing the artists at work, and Sacre Coeur, but the Con men made our day – we secretly watched them setting up unsuspecting tourists to relieve them of €50 a time playing a game called “La Blanche” (White Spot) i.e. swap the discs around and guess which one the spot’s under. Oldest trick in the book. After 10 minutes, when they’d made a fistful of dosh, one of them scurried their cardboard box table away, the rest dispersed to a meeting spot round the corner, and they joked about the idiots who had just parted with so much money. And there were half a dozen different groups of guys doing the same thing all the way up that crowded street in Montmartre. Incredible.
 Montmartre: wall to wall tourists in 30 degree heat – not fun | The Con Men: the 3 men bending over the box are part of the setup. The woman behind the guy in the blue shirt parted with about €200 while we watched , till her husband dragged her away.  |  One of the few street entertainers we gave money to for her decorative and musical ability |
 Sacre Coeur was one of the most attractive cathedrals both structurally and decoratively |  another bit of Sacre Coeur |  The Place du Tertre is famous for all the working artists & painting sales |  Oo la la, ze French artiste |
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