my flight got cancelled so i did a bit of off the top of my head, ticket, train to dover and hoped i could hitchhike my way back home. well, not home technically, but. lots of disruption. lots of disruptions. how are you feeling? tired. we re only from maidstone, so it s 45 minutes drive. and it s taken us about six and a half hours, seven hours. seven and a half hours. seven and a half hours now, sorry. seven and a half hours to get to this point. as well as a big increase in tourist traffic, p&0 are running a reduced ferry service after sacking 800 workers earlier this year, and there are now increased post brexit checks. it s adding up to a bit of a perfect storm here in dover. hundreds of lorries were also trying to cross the channel. the coast guard brought in to distribute food and drink to those delayed. people were queueing around the block for eurostar services at st pancras in london but some won t get away at all. easyjet has cancelled more than 200 flights over the next
after exhausting other options. i was supposed to go and fly this morning back to france. my flight got cancelled, so i did a bit of off the top of my head, took a train to dover and hoped i could hitchhike my way back home. well, not home technically, but. lots of disruption. lots of disruptions. how are you feeling? tired. we re only from maidstone, so it s 45 minutes drive. and it s taken us about six and a half hours, seven hours. seven and a half hours. seven and a half hours now, sorry. hours to get to this point. as well as a big increase in tourist traffic, p&o are running a reduced ferry service after sacking 800 workers earlier this year, and there are now increased post brexit checks. it s adding up to a bit of a perfect storm here in dover. hundreds of lorries were also trying to cross the channel. the coast guard brought in to distribute food and drink to those delayed. people were queueing around the block for eurostar services at st pancras in london,
through the crisis. we ll be live to paris in a moment for an expert view on what s at stake but first, this report from theo leggett. the restaurant occupies one of the most famous mediaeval buildings in strasbourg. inside, chefs are getting ready for the lunchtime rush. this place has always been very popular with tourists who bring in much needed income. but at the height of the covid pandemic, it had to close and when it reopened, tourist traffic had disappeared. the restaurant traffic had disappeared. the restaurant was traffic had disappeared. tue restaurant was open traffic had disappeared. tte restaurant was open but traffic had disappeared. ttj: restaurant was open but we still missed our tourists, our visitors, it takes a lot of groups as well. mainly from asia, for example. so you can imagine that those groups were just not here for the last 2.5 years. tt just not here for the last 2.5 ears. , ., ., years. it survived through a time when years. it survived through a ti
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