Porquerolles
Milena, a student from Marseille, was planning to take advantage of the two days off a week that her summer job leaves her to join friends on the largest of the Golden Islands.
A fairly simple journey on paper.
TER at 8:30 am Saint-Charles station.
Arrival an hour and a half later in Hyères.
Then bus to the Tour Fondue pier.
She had booked her electronic ticket for the 11 o'clock sea shuttle.
This summer, in order to limit the number of passages, tourists must indeed buy their places upstream, the objective of the authorities being not to exceed 4,000 people per day.
An unprecedented measure, imposed by Jean-Pierre Giran, the LR mayor of Hyères, on which Porquerolles depends, in order to avoid the hell of last season: overcrowded island and overwhelmed traders, unable to provide a correct service.
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For the student, the a priori simple journey turned into an epic from Hyères station.
It is first of all a bus taken by storm, with about twenty people
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