"There, I'm ready!" : nearly a million passengers in the stations this weekend

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Nearly a million passengers are expected in French stations during this holiday crossover weekend.

In every corner of the Montparnasse station in Paris on Friday, travelers are waiting, sometimes sitting on their suitcases.

A big smile is emerging on the lips of the Augustans, while the Julyists are already thinking about the start of the school year.

They are all huddled together under large billboards while they wait for the holidays. 

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Catherine is well equipped to join her hike through the Pyrenees.

"I have my tent, my sleeping bag, a change of clothes. Here I am, I'm ready!" She says with a broad smile.

Moving away from Paris, she needed it after this year of health crisis.

"I will forget the Covid because I will be in the great outdoors. And maybe it will start to be sunny?", She hopes.

A break "to better resume at the start of the school year"

A little further on, Stéphanie and her daughter Mila are also waiting on the quay.

Direction Brest for three weeks with a nice program on arrival: "Enjoy my daughter and have time together by the sea."

Little Mila even sees herself "going rock climbing".

For Stéphanie, the break was mandatory "to resume better at the start of the school year".

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But there are all the same some sad faces in the station, that of the juillettistes. Yanis and Chloe come home from summer camp, a few grains of sand in their shoes and knick-knacks in the suitcase. "It's always a little sad, we shed little tears at the start," says Yanis. "It happened super fast! We didn't have time to enjoy it too much," says Chloe. But one thing is certain: next year, they will all meet in the same camp to share more good times.