the driver is on strike

France is on strike. At least our train driver that was going to take us from Spain to Paris is on strike. This we know for sure as we are led down to an empty train in the Spain Franca border town of Hendaye at 11pm and plonked in a tiny couchette to sleep for the night … on a train going nowhere. And the next day when the darling Charlotte takes us on our Parisian tour, it is perhaps our absent train driver we spy, on a public strike marching past the July Column in centre of the Place de la Bastille.