Our first househunting trip to France
After many weeks planning and researching online, reading up on several departments and looking at what we could get for our budget the time was right to go and visit France. We felt that the Languedoc offered us everything we wanted and planned our visit to the Herault region of the Languedoc in the south of France. We were looking forward to the trip, and hoping to find our perfect holiday home or at least begin to narrow down the type of property we wanted, in what is a very diverse area of mountains, plains, coastline and of course vineyards!
Alas, things were not to go as smoothly as we’d hoped and in the week leading up to our trip there was unrest in France due to the new Youth Employment Laws that had been introduced. Our lives suddenly became obsessed by watching the news and looking on Ryanair’s website for news on the effect on flights. Some flights were being cancelled, some were still going ahead, so on the morning of Thursday 30th March 2006, our bags packed and our hearts full of uncertainty we left for the airport. We had just got onto the A1 when we got a text from a friend (thanks Tony), to tell us that our flight had been cancelled. Gutted, (sorry but there is no other word for it), we got off at the next exit and came home. Once home, determined our trip would go ahead, although things were still very uncertain due to no resolution and threats of yet more strikes we rebooked for the following week.
Comment - Its hard to be unbiased when affected by such chaos but one must look at the wider picture - I read that youth unemployment stands at 23% in France.
August 26th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
When we heard that the flights had, indeed, been cancelled we started off home and I must say that the KFC was the worst meal I have had in many a long year. Not sure if it was the food or just the way we felt but I think in the future, the emotions felt on that day will dictate eating habits.