Which leaves the New York parade looking all the more retrograde and anomalous, bizarrely so for a city that lays claim to being the progressive capital of America.
Their ostensible Britishness was carefully guarded and they led an insulated existence, sometimes bizarrely so.
Bizarrely, so is Lezignan coach and former France international Aurelien Cologni, who has also been appointed the new France head coach!
More bizarrely, so too is the minister for culture.
He was truly amazed that without any bad intentions on his part, his life could suddenly spin so dangerously and bizarrely out of control.
I was so stunned that the whole day felt – and, bizarrely, still feels in retrospect – like a weird dream.
So were various disguises - wigs, dark glasses, and bizarrely, a "full body fat suit, approximately 18 stone woman".
CULTURAL AFTERNOON The Castello boasts an entire museum complex - Cittadella dei Musei - on the Piazza dell'Arsenale (9), so you can choose between antiquity, archaeology and art, not to mention fine collections of Siamese treasures and, bizarrely, anatomical waxes.
But surely not bizarrely acted, bizarrely written, bizarrely directed and bizarrely, completely and culpably misjudged?
Macabre, definitely creepy and bizarrely artful.
