There was no sign of the usual holiday rush of families using the bus to get to the airport for the traditional Whit holidays this year – probably a mixture of no money & not wanting to get stranded by, if not a volcano then by something else unforeseen in this suddenly unpredictable world.
What is notable however is the exodus of couples, without children but not necessarily past retirement age, who have been setting off on a foreign holiday which started in the days after the end of May bank holiday Monday. Even the bus drivers have been remarking upon it.
That’s one unexpected advantage of end-year exams. Holiday prices are lower because not even those parents who would be willing to take their children out of school to avoid the misery of travelling at the same time as everybody else would do it just now.
