Not much chance of France this summer

My guess is that this will not last more than a few weeks before bilateral deal are struck with low infection countries. I'm still hanging on to my August ferry and French campsite bookings for the time being!

Should be in France now for 6 weeks but all has been cancelled, also Lake Garda in September.

Hope things improve soon as all of us do, but have decided to abandon European trips for this year just seems to much hassle at the moment.  

It's all getting a bit confusing, at least for me it is. Let's see if I've got this right.

We are one of the last heavily populated European countries to be affected by the Virus. So we've had a chance to see how it affects other countries such as Spain and Italy who haven't been coping so well with the epidemic but Germany seems to be doing better so...

We do nothing for quite a while, oh apart from have a few COBRA meetings but the PM can't be bothered to attend.

We continue to allow uncontrolled and unchecked people to come into this country then..

We decide it might be getting a bit hairy so we start checking to see if we have a few PPE's lying around in a cupboard somewhere.. and we also don't want to join in with other EU countries to order some when they ask if want to join them when they do..

The PM decides that he should address the nation and asks that we all behave ourselves so that's that sorted..

But, despite being given months of notice of what might happen we are still unprepared for it when it does. We've decided to follow the Spain and Italy route rather than those Germans, who are still doing rather well in the circumstances...

After 30,000+ deaths the PM decides, enough is enough and we can all go out again, except you can't if you live in Wales, Scotland or N.I.

He then says that we are going to have a quarantine imposed on anyone coming into the country, after already allowing over 1,000,000 in without one, but it will be ok if you enter via Ireland or France so Dutch and Germans etc. will have to catch their ferries from Calais now plus anyone arriving on a plane from say Brazil in Paris can waltz in without any quarantine...

But now he says Whoa.. Haven't thought this one out properly. We'll make everyone have a 14 day stay at home holiday when they arrive so France naturally says Up your BJ...

Is that about right?

Oh forgot to mention something about one of his top advisors not being subject to the same rules as everyone else,  I think though we will probably find out there's a special rule for Govt advisors.

If I've missed something it's because I'm still confused...

On the evening news it suggested that France would mirror any restrictions other countries had in place. So if the UK require a two week quarantine period France would impose that on people coming into France from the UK. I am sure a sensible compromise will be struct but if not you will need to add four weeks to your holiday, two out and two in!!!

David

It gets better WN, Greece is out of lockdown,  the Greek islands are opening up for International business as of July (14 day quarantine just now) but its not allowing folk from the UK as our infected score is to high. 

Spain has announced today that they are also opening up for tourism as of July (not sure if that means UK  allowed or not) 

Until the foreign gives an indication of when its safe to travel its all pretty much pie in the sky. 

One point you have missed who is the man behind the voices even the sage meetings,

maybe i will just have possibly the covid virus but take our son to see grandma for her birthday

According to Jamsdad, the French have been imposing a 14 day quarantine since 2 May? So why do the UK media make it out to be some kind of reprisal by the French? It's all getting too political!

Can't seem to find the truth anywhere these days, so we're staycationing in England - charity begins at home!

I don't think they are. My understanding is that the French and British have/had a reciprocal agreement that meant that a quarantine would not be applied to each others citizens. But this seems to have been overturned by the PM's recent statement. See here

David

Until the FCO changes their "essential travel only" advice, you'll be uninsured either way.

We should be in France now, for 6-weeks, but had to cancel.  Being in our mid-80’s, loss of a year is critical for us, but the obviously sensible thing to do is to play it safe and be patient.  Covid-19 is not something to be messed about with, and if it takes severe restrictions to keep the disease under control then so be it.  Premature easing to satisfy impatience will get us nowhere if that caused spikes and a resultant resurgence of the disease.

We have laid up our caravan until next year, in the hope that strict disciplinary measures will give greater promise for 2021.