In the time when we have to queue for hours at airports due to staff shortages and we can end up in long traffic jams on the way to the southern European sun, you can wonder whether a holiday in our own country isn’t better after all.
In the North, parents of children in primary and secondary education have to wait another week before the holiday really starts. The summer fun has already started for school children in South Holland, large parts of Gelderland and Utrecht and parts of Flevoland and North Brabant.
Downside: that immediately resulted in the first black Saturday. Around noon, the ANWB counted 615 kilometers of traffic jams in France. Give it up for those on the road, because the delay could be up to three hours.
In France, it will remain busy for the foreseeable future. The holiday country, which is popular with the Dutch, has designated five black Saturdays for this summer. That was two or three other years. It is expected that more people will go on holiday with their own transport. On the one hand because of the lifted corona measures and on the other hand because people are reluctant to fly.
And then there is a holiday in our own country. No hours in traffic jams in the blazing sun, no long lines, no stress to catch a flight, no lost suitcases. Is holidaying in your own country better than standing in line at Schiphol or in a traffic jam abroad? Participate in the Statement of the Day and give your opinion.