A small holiday booked

A pretty unremarkable week at least started off brightly enough when I booked a short holiday for the wife and I during the third week in September. We had considered driving down to friends who live an hour or so away from France's south coast nr Montpelier, but with other constraints, like daughter No1 going off to college for the first time the following week and having yet another holiday earlier in the month, I reasoned that I would spend two much time driving down there and back, than having a relaxing break.
I had heard a number of reports that Majorca away from the tourist areas was rather good, so looking at one of our favourite sites for accommodation, Alister Sawday's Special Places found a decent hotel up in the north east of the island for four nights. Get there early on a Monday morning and leave late on Friday on EasyJet and with a car hired we should be well catered for. This all hapened in a space of 15 minutes and it just shows how personal travel has changed with the coming of the internet.
Well this was all right until I read Simon Calder in yesterdays Independent where lack of enough vehicles has meant that holidaymakers are getting to Palma (and other places) to find that the car they had booked was not available, and so faced huge increases to get a car that was available. Hopefully as we are going after all the schools have gone back, then the pressure will be off.