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Am I the only one not to take a holiday abroad?

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ILoveJoeBrown · 07/09/2020 15:28

Is it me, or have all my friends seemed to have had lovely hot holidays abroad this year? We didn't book anything until a few weeks back and have just had 4 days in North of England. That was our only summer holiday as we worked all through the blasted heatwave.

Now all we can see on fb is photos of friends who have been to lovely hot sunny places for a week or two. Italy, Greece, France. Even my DS21 has just flown off to Amsterdam.

Were we wrong to staycation or should we just have gone abroad and hang the consequences? Beginning to think we missed something. Is there a pandemic or did we imagine it all (no - that's another thread!!)?

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ILoveJoeBrown · 10/09/2020 08:29

glad I'm not the only one. Just feel a bit cross when they come back crowing about how they got away with it & guilty that I didn't organise something.

There you go - guilt and envy in one post

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Roselilly36 · 10/09/2020 09:04

No we wouldn’t consider a holiday abroad at the moment. Far too many restrictions. I am not long out of being shielded, not a sensible idea to travel in pandemic against FOC advice.

middleager · 10/09/2020 09:09

No, but I don't see a difference with large numbers of peoole from across the UK going to popular UK destinations (me included) or going abroad.

Each to their own preference.

Lindy2 · 10/09/2020 09:10

Based upon how quiet the airports are then I would say the vast majority didn't fly anywhere this summer.

I know a couple of people who did go abroad but they are people who haven't cared less about social distancing, responsible behaviour etc right from the start. One also took her school age child away at the start of September just as she should have returned to school because clearly 5 months off school wasn't enough .

KitKatastrophe · 10/09/2020 09:25

Yes you're obviously the only person in a country of 67 million who hasnt been abroad this year
Well done, you win.

Dontcarewhatmyusernameis · 10/09/2020 09:28

None of my friends went abroad. A couple of my colleagues did - one had booked a holiday to somewhere with low rates of Covid and wouldn’t have got a refund and the other was visiting family.
I wouldn’t have wanted to go abroad this year - with quarantine rules changing, things closed, was much happier sticking to the U.K.

chocolatesaltyballs22 · 10/09/2020 10:18

The assumption that everyone who went abroad doesn't care about social distancing and all the other rules is utter bullshit.

I have rule followed since day 1 and I went abroad at the end of August. I'm going again in October, all being well. Also not everyone is travelling against FCO advice - there are still places you can visit which are allowed.

Honestly, this is becoming the new Brexit.

MsTSwift · 10/09/2020 10:28

We had 3 amazing weeks abroad still on post holiday high - looks like it’s going to be a tough winter so very glad we took the opportunity when we did. Went to non quarantine counties drove and self catered. Whose to say next summer won’t be worse?

CatBatCat · 10/09/2020 10:30

I haven't been abroad for over 10 years. Typical of me to book a holiday to Portugal in the middle of a pandemic. We've pushed it back to next year.

Hardbackwriter · 10/09/2020 10:32

glad I'm not the only one

Hang on, did you really think you might be the only person who hadn't been abroad in the entire nation until you started this MN thread? Are you... very stupid?

Kaktus · 10/09/2020 10:33

Yes, you are completely right. Of 67 million people in the U.K. you are indeed the only one who a) didn’t go abroad on holiday and b) recognises that we are currently experiencing a pandemic.

Well done.

Kaktus · 10/09/2020 10:34

Ps I went to Devon for 5 days. Pissed it down all week and cost more than our planned 2 weeks in a cottage in the south of France was going to.

lifesalongsong · 10/09/2020 10:49

@Kaktus

Yes, you are completely right. Of 67 million people in the U.K. you are indeed the only one who a) didn’t go abroad on holiday and b) recognises that we are currently experiencing a pandemic.

Well done.

Every time I see a thread title that starts "Am I the only one to ...." I think the same

Concerned7777 · 10/09/2020 10:51

I wonder if OP is expecting a blue Peter badge or something

Campervan69 · 10/09/2020 10:56

CatBatCat We went to Portugal it was absolutely lovely and I felt much safer there than I do back in Greater Manchester right now.

angelfishrock · 10/09/2020 11:07

We went away and I have a lot of friends who also did go away. But I know more people who had a staycation this year than in previous years.

IcedPurple · 10/09/2020 11:07

Every time I see a thread title that starts "Am I the only one to ...." I think the same

Been going on for 5 months at this stage.

Is it just me or is nobody following de roolz?

Am I the only one respecting SD in this town?

Am I wrong or is everyone acting as though there is no virus?

Yes you're wrong. And no, it isn't just you. I don't know how these people are going to cope when the crisis is over.

CatBatCat · 10/09/2020 14:43

@Campervan69 I'm sure it is, we booked to go there for a specific event which got rescheduled which is why we aren't going till next year.

PattyPan · 10/09/2020 16:56

We went abroad in February before the pandemic had really kicked off (and well before it reached the place we went to). We didn’t go anywhere this summer but we are going camping in the UK this weekend and I am really nervous! A friend the same age as me (mid 20s) with no conditions died of Covid so I think I am taking it a lot more seriously than other people in their 20s and 30s who feel like they are immune...

PattyPan · 10/09/2020 16:58

Oh, forgot to say that lots of people I work with have been abroad. 2 people in my team currently in post-holiday quarantine.

BogRollBOGOF · 10/09/2020 17:13

Had a UK holiday. A bit shorter than normal due to no suitable activities for poor weather (pre-booking so no spontenaiety, having to endure masks)

We didn't go abroad because of the unpredictabilty of travel arrangements, and 3 out of 4 of us are exempt from masks.
Better to stay in the UK where we understand the regulations and could spend the week happily bare-faced outdoors.

I hope all the people who went abroad had a lovely time, it just wasn't for me and my family this year.

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ILoveJoeBrown · 10/09/2020 20:53

KitKatastrophe and kaktus plus a couple of others who seem determined to be rude , just to make themselves feel good: you are the stoopids, for not understanding exaggeration for effect / sarcasm / whatever.

Go and bother someone your own age.

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Kaktus · 10/09/2020 20:54

@ILoveJoeBrown

Go and bother someone your own age.

NHT32 · 10/09/2020 20:56

Most of my friends didn’t go. We ended up in the Lakes and it pissed down for 3/4 days so I can see why people do. Saying that it was a nice chance of scene although an expensive one for what we got!

EmmaStone · 11/09/2020 07:09

We had a few holidays cancelled throughout Spring, and we did go to France in August and quarantined on our return. We drove and stayed in a self-catered house just the four of us in a non-touristy part of the country, where we read, swam, cycled, ran. It didn't feel particularly risky to me. It was booked a year ago, and I'm delighted I went. I've also taken advantage of the cheaper flight prices during lockdown, and got 3 city breaks booked between October and Easter. Hoping they go ahead, but won't be surprised if I'm having to rearrange some or all of them.

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