Strike whilst the iron is hot

St Edmond
Yesterday's weather: gradually got warmer during the day.

I've heard it said many a time that striking is a French national pastime. In fact I have been in Paris during a national transport strike, trying our best to get from the centre of Paris to the exhibition centre near Charles de Gaulle airport every day - of course the strike finished the day after the exhibition closed.

People took to the streets of Paris, if not to protest then just to walk to work. There were skateboarders and cyclists galore. Luckily some of us were able to use a rental car to drive to the exhibition centre but what would normally have been a 40 minute drive turned into a 2 1/2 hour bumper to bumper shuffle each way, adding up to 5 hours a day on an already tiring 9 hour stand at the exhibition.

This latest action has spread today to hospital staff, teachers, postal workers and air traffic controllers. Apparently.

Here, the kids are all in school, the post was delivered, planes do seem to be passing overhead, but I don't know about the hospital.

With mother arriving tomorrow by plane into Toulouse, we are hoping that the air traffic controllers don't continue their action after the planned 6am finish tomorrow.