Rainy morning, so we headed to Perigueux, a town of 30k. Lots and lots of people downtown and they all seemed to headed in one direction... and soon we found out why.
As Johnny Horton sang in the Battle of New Orleans... "There must have been a hundred of 'em, beating on a drum". Yep, a full scale march. 15 to 20 thousand people by our estimate... the march went on for about 45 minutes.
They were protesting the change in retirement age from 60 to 62. That's for partial pension - full pension starts at 67. Lots of drumming, lots of noise. There is a national strike called for next Tuesday, 19 October. Hope we don't get stranded here, but worse things could happen. We due to fly out on Friday, back to Amsterdam. Spend the night, then fly out Saturday to PDX.
Anyway, Perigueux was a nice town. Lots of fun shops to explore - a large market. Reminded us of Bergerac. Ciao for now. P
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