Last Friday, we decided that we wanted to go to Decathlon, a sport shop the other side of Chambéry. We thought that if we left at around 17:30, most of the traffic would have gone. It would be a smooth ride. But we were greatly mistaken.
A few hundred yards after leaving home, we hit a traffic jam. We didn’t know that every Friday, between 17:00 and 19:00, the town turns into a big car park. Traffic comes to a halt as everybody tries to get home. It was horrendous. There were cars everywhere. Wherever I turned, I hit a traffic jam. We gave up the idea of reaching the shop we wanted to go too.
Eventually, we reached MacDonald’s and stopped there. It usually takes 15 minutes. It had taken us 1h15 to get there.
There was a way to get through the traffic. But we hadn’t thought about it. We’ll know next time.
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