BWE France 2022

[JimHow]

Alex, I know May is a holiday month in France, but if you had to pick a week in May 2022, what would it be?

[AlexR]

Hi Jim,

Tha week starting on Monday, May 16th 2022 looks good to me.

Two public holidays, the 1st (French Labor Day) and the 8th (VE Day) fall on a Sunday, which leaves the week clear.

The week starting on Monday the 23rd is the worst because Thursday is a holiday (Ascencion Day), and a large percentage of the population will also take the Friday off to make a long weekend.

All the best,
Alex

[Blanquito]

Hopefully not relevant for a trip planned a year from now, but ugh:
“From midnight on March 19th, 2021, 21m people in France will enter a new month-long lockdown, on top of a nationwide curfew that has been in place since January 16th.”

[JimHow]

I'll never forget the first call, from the guy at Vieux Chateau Certan, half in French, he was the first one to cancel on us, just about a year ago.
Then Lafite, then the rest.... Man, that was a dark time. A year later, France is just as shut down, if not more.