After several years of renovation work, a vast ice rink is reopening under the ornate domed glass ceiling of Paris' Grand Palais. Visitors can enjoy a whopping 2,700 m² of ice until the 8th of January. "There's been a kind of enchantment since earlier, I can see it in people's eyes. Now we can really realise that Christmas is coming," says one skater. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES