If there's a 1, 2 or 3 in the date, there's a festival in New Orleans. This weekend there was a seafood festival, a tomato festival...


and the city's first World Naked Bike Ride.

Fifty or sixty valiant cyclists took part (I didn't). Most of them obeyed the New Orleans Police Department's ban on the display of naughty bits, making imaginative use of duct tape, old socks and body paint. Hopefully in future years there'll be too many naked people for the police to arrest them all, as is the case in other cities around the world: London has gone from 58 riders to over 1,000 in the past five years.