Maximilien Carlier 3:51 p.m., July 17, 2022
Like every year, millions of families will not go on vacation.
This concerns about four out of six French people according to Olivier Grégoire, the Minister of SMEs.
In Lille, the municipality has opened the Lille Aventure Nature park all summer long to allow residents of Lille who are not leaving to escape.
Ziplines, bouncy castles and misters... The program is busy for Maité and her children.
They come almost every day to this park.
"We can't go on vacation so it's a way to escape and then to please our three boys. This kind of activity is very pleasant! We enjoy it just as much as if we had traveled thousands of kilometers to leave", she explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
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"We can't afford it"
For this family, it is impossible to go see the cousins in Bordeaux, explains this Lille resident, because the budget is too tight.
The observation is the same for Stéphanie who was unable to organize a stay on the coast.
"I had tried to do the accounts to try to leave for a few days on the edge of the beach", she says.
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"You have to count the petrol, the toll, the races and then also the activities. It's too expensive, we can't afford it".
And if this park had been paying, we would not have come, she adds.
Lying on a deckchair, next to palm trees, this park, for this mother, is like a "holiday club".