LONDON, England (CNN) -- For European workers the summer vacation season is here.

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C'mon, at age seven, visiting the River Thames in central London is probably on the top ten most unexciting ways to spend a crucial week of summer vacation, but if you could snag a WiFi signal whilst the 'rents oohed and ahhed at all the lovely sights, now we're talking.

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"Since the summer is coming up I can take a nice vacation, " she said.

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Some of this is due to general market uncertainty but also the typical summer-vacation slowdown, he said.

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"Completing the work of education reform is a final exam for Congress before they go home in August for summer vacation and before America's children go back to school, " the president said in his weekly radio address.

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And so, even though, in anticipation of the gas price is going up this summer, some people might switch to flying or going on a cruise for vacation.

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