Driving through France but not stopping

[ScrumpyBetty]

We have been camping in Switzerland and due to come back this weekend. I've read that if you drive through France but don't get out of your vehicle and mix with other people then you don't have to quarantine. We have to drive through France on journey home and then catch a ferry from Caen, where we will be in a cabin and not mixing with anyone. Will we still have to quarantine when we get home? Help!

Surely to drive that far through France without stopping would be impossible? No petrol stops? No food stops? Not even a leg stretch?

Yes it's about 8 hour drive, just googled further and it says that people driving through France still have to quarantine so we're going to book Eurotunnel.
I read you can drive through France and you can stop as long as you don't mix with anybody or take any new passengers.

www.facebook.com/notes/british-embassy-paris/covid-19-update-transit-stops/3606924719365897/

just googled further and it says that people driving through France still have to quarantine

Not according to the link above. It gives a number of different scenarios.

Thanks hoistbymyownzombie that was useful info and has clarified things for me 😊

Yes sorry I meant driving through France and getting ferry home, which was the original plan.
We are now going to book Eurotunnel instead of ferry because it means not having to quarantine

And how in the name fo god would anyone know if you had or had not stopped.

Yes exactly acautionarytale

Surely you'd still have to stop in France for petrol /for a wee though, which means "disembarking" and using a public space, means that changing to euro tunnel is pointless ?

Could you do the first part of the journey in Germany and refuel before entering France? It only adds an hour or so to the journey I think.

It’s worse than that .....

I could holiday in France, fill up just outside of Calais, get on the ferry and then tell the officials in England I’d been in Germany and refuelled there

There is no way they can prove I’m lying without accessing my mobile phone records or using satellite to trace my car - neither of which they have the time or resources to do

I meant to say - fill up somewhere and drive to Calais - not fill up outside of Calais

We were trying to be green and drive not fly to Germany and Italy but kids and I now flying back from Italy poor dh will drive on his own through France without stopping. He can quarantine but kids desperate to start school. That said the flights £20 each as single with no luggage which environmentally I disapprove of but hey ho.

Thank you for the link hoist. Dh just buying his eurotunnel ticket now he will drive without stopping from Switzerland and avoid quarantine. He won’t complain about my mumsnet habit again 😁

@ACautionaryTale
In that hypothetical example you’d have to quarantine if you catch the ferry though, Eurotunnel you wouldn’t.

@MsTSwift

We were trying to be green and drive not fly to Germany and Italy but kids and I now flying back from Italy poor dh will drive on his own through France without stopping. He can quarantine but kids desperate to start school. That said the flights £20 each as single with no luggage which environmentally I disapprove of but hey ho.

And the kick to this is that you are more likely to be exposed to Covid at the airport and on the plane than your husband driving back!

We drive through France with no contact with anyone else. Only stopped for pay at pump (gloves, masks, sanitiser) but will be quarantining because mixing in pubs, holiday parks, buses etc in England is safer than being isolated in rural France.

I know! That’s the ridiculous part! Dh flooring it from Switzerland not stopping and going in the tunnel. One child starting new secondary school and other 14 so there will be hell to pay if they have to quarantine So we flying - goodbye environmental principles well we did try...

Friends arrived back from Germany today, they filled up near Aachen which is only 3.5 hours from the tunnel. As per the rules they walked the dog away from any other people and used nature's toilets aka bushes before reaching the train.