Foreign Perspectives

When a bank holiday weekend falls in the middle of your vacation then you need to check out what facilities are going to be available.

For example, we’ve a group coming tonight who are relying on public transport. Their train gets in around 10.30pm by which time there’s a good chance that the taxis will have made a start on their own vacation. Even if they don’t, then they’re going to be with us all day on the 14th with no transport at all because everything from buses to taxis knocks off for the entire day locally.

Many shops close too. In fact, just about all of them except for the large supermarkets. Still, at least that means that you can get food on the holiday although from the queues at the checkout on Saturday you’d think that the shops were going to be closed for a week or more.

Even some tourist attractions close on public holidays which would be a peculiar thing for them to do but then this is France so it shouldn’t surprise you too much that tourist attractions close on public holidays.