Since yesterday and for the rest of the month, the local schoolchildren and their teachers are on a well-deserved (at least in the case of some teachers) vacation. This has a tremendous impact on traffic conditions in and around Sophia Antipolis: the streets are empty, there are zero traffic jams, and getting home from work takes me only about six or seven minutes by car (as opposed to fifteen). Usually, the problem is that parents who drop off and pick up their children have to use the same roads as the many people who drive to and from Sophia for work every day, so there are quite a few bottlenecks. The obvious solution would be to make a new access road for the main school, the CIV, but that would be too sensible. For now, I enjoy the quiet... until May 4.