Dear Readers,

As you know, for the last month we are running our curious Love/Hate survey. It will end soon which means that you are kindly invited to share your opinion on what you like and hate: from the people, your fellow passengers, to the toilets and other that shape the big picture.

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Planning a trip to France? Read this real story and plan carefully.

In short:

• It turns out employees of Air France live by one motto: I will only put enough energy into my job so as to prevent my customers from hassling me.
• The next day, I was back at the airport, on my way to Nice. … She said that my bag would be on my new flight, and that it would be waiting for me when I landed. Great! But, in actuality, this was the first case of someone lying to me to just make me feel OK so I didn’t hassle her. So, I land in Nice, and of course, no bag.
• So, we land in Paris, and discover we have no baby stroller, but it’s now on it’s way to Amsterdam.
• That stroller never showed up. Several days later, when we were back at that awful Paris airport, I decided to look for the stroller. I went to the baggage office outside the main baggage claim area, but they told me I had to get into the restricted baggage claim area. Uh, how do I do this? Well, he told me to wait for someone leaving through the one-way door, and then sneak in. Basically, breach security. Ok, I can roll with that.

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Usez is lovely city located less than 15 miles to the North of Nimes. It is great destination for a day trip or city breakaway.

A must see is the local market that is surprisingly busy for a city of less than 9000 inhabitants. Better go there early in the morning because later it is crowded and it will take you hours to poke through the people.

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René, I’ll drive today, you had too much chardonnay!
No, Edith, I’ll dive today, you had enough champagne!
René, give me the control!
Edith, sit there and drink your wine. I said I’ll drive!
René, watch out!…

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Cannes is really famous and alive only in a few weeks in spring, the time of the Cannes Film Festival. It’s the European alternative of the Oscars; some people even say that Cannes is better because the festival tributes the cinema as art and not industry. Indeed the movies shown there are often not mainstream and easy to accept; they are not the shaky high-budget blockbusters. Unfortunately, Cannes al contrary is a city of showing off pretenses and definitely high budget for travelers.

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