Campsite lockdown in Spain

As of just now they are still prepared to book our MH on the Tuesday or Friday sailing to Santander though. If I wanted.😉

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Don’t disagree, perception can become distorted by the hysterical news reporting we see all too often. Like you, being locked-down in a state of emergency would be my biggest concern, not quarantine which wouldn’t really bother me either. We’ve been avoiding the worst of Cornwall crowds by touring quiet spots in Shropshire and Mid-Wales. Now I discover there’s an outbreak in Craven Arms where we stopped for some shopping on Thursday, so maybe no different here, just running in a different time frame?

Government are damned if they do, damned if they don’t, but inclusion of Balearic & Canaries seems irrational.

 

Hi Bill As your visit to Craven Arms shows you just don't know what you may encounter hence the need for maintaining your personal precautions.

So far as the Balearics/Canaries are concerned, I think its probably the fact they are islands and have lower incidence/tighter controls.

Re hysterical news, just saw Simon Calder, always seemed a informative and reliable source of info, on ITV say that you could avoid self isolation by visiting a country, such as France, instead of coming home direct from, say, Spain. He also said you could leave isolation to travel abroad again as a way of getting round the rules-which he kept saying he did not make!

A Google search, taking seconds, showed this is wrong yet i think more people watch TV than come on here and may now be wrongly informed.

I think on the Government score I suspect they are conscious that they have and will come in for criticism for being very late in locking down people from abroad very early on in the crisis which may have had a major impact on the spread of COVID and the number of deaths in this country. You could argue that have gone a bit over the top this time but they clearly don't want to be caught out again. I have some sympathy with that outlook.

I am sure I have expressed this view before but anyone going abroad this year, by whatever means, is taking a risk. Perhaps not with their own health but certainly in terms of holidays being cut short or cancelled at the last minute. To me there seems no prospect of pleasure or enjoyment embarking on an overseas holiday with that hanging over you. We will attempt to go away in the UK a few things this year but if we don't enjoy the experience we will call it a day as far as touring is concerned this year sad to say.

David

To me there seems no prospect of pleasure or enjoyment embarking on an overseas holiday with that hanging over you.

Hi David, I might change 'no prospect' to 'reduced prospects; but as for you all the issues that we are considering will come down to that question in the end.

Re 'lockdown', I listened to a radio discussion on 16th March where the interviewee gave, what I increasingly became to appreciate, a very clear explanation of why he felt the UK had not been slow in introducing a 'lockdown'.

He said that until we went to a policy of restricting contact/movement etc, as introduced on 23rd March, there was little point as people were free to enter the UK and do as they wished.

He also went on to say that once we entered lockdown we would be facing restrictions till a cure was available.

Like you I felt the government this, or any other, would be in for criticism.

This doesnt mean the have got it all right, or nothing wrong, but dont think that in the long run it would have been different for anyone else.

 

The problem is, it’s not just the loss of the pleasure of holidaying abroad, but the consequences of that e.g. ‘staycationing’. Many UK hotspots are hideously crowded offering little chance to socially distance and getting a place on a popular campsite without lots of forward planning is nigh on impossible. Not sure if it’s just me, but seems to be lots of big noisy groups (in tents) on sites this year. Maybe those that would otherwise be elsewhere?

I thought Simon C had totally lost the plot this time round and so has Ryanair in continuing flights. 

Would I book a holiday out of the UK this year, no. France had the right idea encouraging people to holiday locally in France. People seem to want to court problems. 

 

Never had much time for Simon Calder, exists in the world of package holidays, which I can’t relate to, but one person’s idea of courting problems is another’s idea of adventure.  

I don’t think you can blame Ryanair, Easyjet et al for continuing to fly, they’ve been at the sharp end of ‘flip-flop’ policy from the start and there is no travel ban. They’re just trying to stay in business, and I hope they do.

In this time of Covid I personally feel adventure can go on the back burner, it's not so much of an individual choice anymore since it can affect others. IMHO.