On holiday WWYD?

[fadingfast]

We’re currently in France and DD has started to feel unwell (sore throat, snotty). We’ve got some tests but I’m waiting until the morning to test her, so we don’t do it too early. So far the rest of us x3 are fine. We are due to leave on Wednesday to stay at another location for two nights, before heading back home on Friday with another night stopover.

I know there’s every chance it’s not covid, but if it is I don’t know if we should just head straight home, or try and continue with our plans? I’m just in a bit of a panic about what to do and feel like I need to have a plan just in case. What have you done, or would you do, in this situation??

France isn’t the U.K. though. They haven’t had their ‘freedom day’ and rules are stricter than here.

I also wouldn’t test , there is zero benefit to knowing whether it’s covid or not , aside from the being fit enough to drive home . Carry on in ignorance and if you or your husband start to feel Ill make for home then .

I wouldn't dream of testing

and do not head home if she had it either

Really? Get a grip! Dose yo and crack on.

@fadingfast - this was pretty much me last week. Due to start driving home from France on the Saturday evening, staying in 2 places on the way to Calais, then shuttle home on the Monday.

Friday had a runny nose, scratchy throat, done a test and it was positive - pretty much an hour after symptoms started.

DP slept in the spare room, daughter's in their own room. Was rough as hell on the Saturday morning, but we had to get out of the apartment on time.

Luckily we were driving, I had 2 masks on, windows wide open in the car. Had my own supply of everything by my feet so didn't need to touch anything of the others. If we stopped anywhere on the way I stayed in the car. When we got to where we were staying i went straight to bed and stayed there out the way.

On the Shuttle I stayed in the car and kept windows shut, DP and daughter's stood by the car out the way.

DP and daughter's didn't get it and I finally got a negative test on the Thursday morning!

Travel home, just be sensible and considerate of others. If we were coming home by plane or Ferry there is no way I would have travelled x

Thanks for all your responses, it’s an interesting range of views. After all that worrying, DD finally did a test this morning (as we are due to leave tomorrow) and it’s negative (phew ). She’s actually feeling a lot better, and it has very much run the course of a normal cold for her so I think that must be all it is.

It was very tempting not to test at all (even though we have always tested in the past), but I just couldn’t in all conscience go to our next destination, where it will be busy and difficult to isolate, without knowing.

@Couldnothappenlater I hope you are feeling better now, sounds as though it was a stressful journey!