Et voila. France is now on the list. Along with Netherlands and Malta

[chomalungma]

Well, glad we didn't book anything.
Camping in the Dales will be fine....won't it?

[quote Yellowbutterfly1]@TrustTheGeneGenie
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No it wasn't that. I remember that though from march!

I agree, I think it is to make people stay here and just spend their money here.

Unfortunately common sense thinking and this government don’t appear to go together. Especially with all the things that Barbaraofseville has listed.

It also screams of “Look at me, I’m in charge and you do as your told”

We are in France at the moment. Returning on Saturday. We have had a good time and it has been relaxing. It's worth the quarantine for us, just about. Tried to book a UK holiday but everything was booked or extraordinarily expensive.

@HopelessSemantics we have been super careful & stick to all the rules. No more likely to spread it than anyone else. Plus it's not France saying "don't come" is it? It's Boris saying "don't go"
The people running the place we are booked to stay at have said they would very much like us to come.

We're off to Malta/Gozo next week. Will work from home for 2 weeks after and isolate. We looked at UK breaks but they were double the price for half the time away and no guarantee of weather, plus more expensive to go out and do anything. Gozo is a quiet island, I'd feel safer there than a rammed Cornwall beach.

People cry out "theres a pandemic on!". Is there though? Or is there an illness that effects a small group of people that's been going round for the last 9 months and probably will continue to do so for the next 10 years?

Apparently the Government thinks there is 160,000 people in France.

160,000 British tourists that is.

@Imissmoominmama

Tbh, I’ve been surprised at friends who’ve booked holidays abroad. Just stay here for now- it’s not a necessity!

And I say that as someone who usually spends the entire summer in France.

TBF, these friends of yours presumably tend to have a lot less than 'the entire summer' in France, therefore may feel more in need of R&R?

I got married two years ago and last year we did a lot of travelling as we'd previously been tied down by other plans, and we just wanted to enjoy ourselves. My friend who got married last planned to do the same in her first year of marriage, but has had so much cancelled.

It's easier to forego holidays when you have them on the regular in my experience!

I feel sorry for people who had booked pre pandemic and now can’t go as they can’t wfh during quarantine. Friends in the last week have chosen to go knowing they will have to quarantine before school returns that’s the rest of their summer wrapped up. They can WFH so have chosen this option.

My family feels like we have our life back - we can visit family in the UK, visit UK beauty spots and the zoo, kids are doing sport, we are all seeing friends, we’ve had a heatwave so sun worshippers have had their fix, we have haircuts, we can eat out... It’s worth being cautious about importing cases to stop us losing these freedoms. Foreign holidays are great but definitely fall into non-essential (unless you have family abroad)I’m glad they’ve introduced quarantine as resuming school is a priority that we shouldn’t jeopardise.

Hello from France

Hi @Bb2019 🙌

Case numbers were known about on Tuesday, could have been announced then. At least it would have helped anyone planning to go today to make a decision.

@IndiaMay
People cry out "theres a pandemic on!". Is there though? Or is there an illness that effects a small group of people that's been going round for the last 9 months and probably will continue to do so for the next 10 years?

Are you effing kidding me? Of course there’s still a pandemic going on. It’s not just going away. Pandemics don’t just vanish after two weeks or a “fast forward” scene like in films. We’re dealing with something akin to the Black Plague here. That lasted about 20 years and came in dangerous waves and spikes until it finally died out but caused major deaths worldwide. Hell, the Spanish Flu was around for 2 years before it finally died out. We’re still at the beginning of this.

@JingsMahBucket that's what I mean tbh. We've just got to get on with life as this will be here for a very long time, probably forever, so we need to get on with life. I'm not going to never go on holiday again because of bloody coronavirus. If I need to quarentine when I get back I'll just do it.

I literally put in my post that it will he here for the next 10 years

The plague was endemic in Europe until well into the 18th century and was considerably deadlier than Covid.