Night scenes in Dinan : 5th January 2012

Despite it being two days before 6th January - traditional 12th night, when in the UK, we have to remove our decorations - indoors and out - for fear of dreadful bad luck - in France, we were told, quite often the decorations remain up for the whole year!  However, the street lights were turned off pretty soon after Christmas day.  Such a pity, as the displays would have been breathtaking!
Not to be daunted, we still traipsed into town at dusk, and took a few snaps of the shops and scenes - which still looked pretty!