REPORTAGE
The start of the summer holidays is given on Saturday for many French people. Heavy traffic is expected throughout the day on the main motorways: Bison Futé sees red everywhere in the direction of departure. Especially since those who do not necessarily have holidays due to the crisis still intend to take advantage of this long July 14 bridge. Even if confinement is only a distant memory, on the Limours-Javry motorway service area, south-west of Paris, motorists crossed by Europe 1 still have the coronavirus epidemic in mind.
It's hard not to think about it when we changed our plans at the last moment, like Véronique who swapped a long trip abroad for camping in Vendée. "Usually we go abroad, this year it's France! The flights are pretty compromised, we don't want to get stranded abroad", she explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
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"The epidemic is here, we have no choice, we have to live with it"
Since leaving Brussels, Raymond has been gritting his teeth: Covid or not, he will only really feel on vacation once his toes are fanned out in the sand of the Ile de Ré. "We hesitated, we were quite suspicious. But we shouldn't obsess over it," he wants to reassure himself. "The epidemic is here, we have no choice, we have to live with it."
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For their part, Charlie and his two sisters still have five hours of driving and slowdown before reaching the Dordogne. "We have pillows, candy bags, blankets," she explains. "We change places in the car, it's hot ... and it's far!"