Sympathy must go to any travellers currently in France or planning to be there in the next day or so, as a strike by rail workers has currently crippled most of the French system.
This has left several lines of the Paris metro not running, and it’s estimated that only 90 out of 700 TGV services were still in service. One interesting side-effect of this was the newfound popularity of Paris’s free bicycle scheme, in the wake of the strike.
Be warned, however that if you plan to try to avoid the strikes by somehow escaping to Germany, rail workers there are planning to strike on Thursday, also. I would recommend heading for Belgium or Spain, instead…
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