Recent Incident ( Nice )
With the recent Incident in Nice i know all of us on here are appauled by what happened. Has anyone got any reservations regarding France at this time. Its alarming to think this kind of thing happened . We was in Audierne our first time in France for Bastille day and what a fantastic day it was with the Fireworks when the sun went down. Children with their parents dancing laughing eating crepes and the adults drinking beer it was a day i will never forget as we don't not see this sort of thing here in the Uk especially with the older Kids .
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although it grieves me, as its giving in to terrorism, although family considerations come first, we will probably not return through France and will return home via Czech republic and northern Germany. Now discussing with brother where we will meet up
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There are so ething like 60,000,000 people in France and possibly 250 or so killed or injured in this incident. The chances of you being involved in something like that is minimal. You just have to get on with your life and not let these people worry you.
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I'm in France at the moment and in no particular hurry to leave. Agree, Bastille celebrations are a great event, fireworks seem to be something more recent, a good few years back it was just dancing in the street. My motorhome shook with the shock wave of some of the fireworkss let off nearbye. My better half said you would never know the difference between them, gunfire or a bomb. She is probably right.
peedee
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I never stayed home or avoided places in the UK when the IRA were doing their worse, and I'm not going to change my plans for September in France because of what's going on there now. It's not just about not giving in to them, it's more a case of carrying
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It is very pleasing to read that the majority of correspondents say they will not be deterred from visiting France despite the extended state of emergency. My wife and I feel exactly the same and would never dream of cancelling our trip to the Loire and
Dordogne areas in September. We were unable to go to France last year due to my dodgy hip, but that has been replaced now and we're raring to go. Terrorist acts must not be allowed to change our way of life, so Vive la France!0 -
I dont believe you have been able to book a package holiday to Egypt and Tunisia for quite a while, probably the best part of 12 months
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although it grieves me, as its giving in to terrorism, although family considerations come first, we will probably not return through France and will return home via Czech republic and northern Germany. Now discussing with brother where we will meet up
at the end of September.Big mistake as Germany could be the next target, but of course you would have to be in the wrong place in Germany which is highly unlikly. Just stick to normal instead. 50000 people died on French roads over the last 10 years but every one keeps going back,
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Some good posts here, and I'm sorry that anyone has been scared away from France. Absolutely no country is safe these days, and rural French campsites are probably amongst the safest places in the world. It's so sad that the terrorists appear to be winning
the propaganda battle with some people, and that it can put someone off visiting a whole country. Yes, what happened was a tragedy and truly awful but we've had awful things happen in Britain too and yet we all go about our business without any particular
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Good post from Val. Remember, the purpose of terrosism is to terrorise and disrupt our way of life. We must not let them succeed in this. Go to France and enjoy that fantastic country, we are off there at the end of August. Vive la France!
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Agree AD. We love travelling to France and will carry on doing so until we are no longer able to due to health reasons, and I hope that will be a long, long time off yet! I've already posted yesterday to say Nice hasn't put us off and I'm glad to read
others who have posted since feel the same. If you let things like that stop you, then how far do you carry that through? We've seen some horrendous accidents, but it hasn't put us off taking to the road. If you let things like that put you off, then you
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It's like not flying because of Lockerbie and all the terrorist aircraft incidents since.
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It seems that as the "staycations" are on the rise it does have some affect
I very much doubt that, I have a strong suspicion that those who leap to cancel due to incidents like this didnt really want to go in the first place and are happy to take their chance with UK terrorists instead. Using an expression of yours elsewhere "hell will freeze over" before I swap my continental tours for a staycation and I think that goes for most everyone posting in this section
..I think its more the "younger" generations,as they seem these days less likely to be able to cope with any "problems"
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Young or old , Ferry. or Plane how can anyone say its Because !!!. Fear can get us in many ways so lets not forget that.
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Travelling in France?, no problem at all. London & other capitals will/are under the same threat.
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We still going to france next week for 3 weeks.our thinking is if your time's up it's up.
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We found that where we went the french sites were as empty of both Brits and the Dutch thoughout this June as we have ever known in 30 odd years of going.
Something is keeping them away but we can only speculate; what might be easier to predict is that sites that rely on off peak season trade to survive are going to be getting fewer if this continues.
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We found that where we went the french sites were as empty of both Brits and the Dutch thoughout this June as we have ever known in 30 odd years of going.
Something is keeping them away but we can only speculate; what might be easier to predict is that sites that rely on off peak season trade to survive are going to be getting fewer if this continues.
You must be joking ocsid I was thinking there was nobody left in the Netherlands. The last 5 weeks I have seen nothing but the Dutch both in Spain and France with a smattering of Germans and Belgiques. Next to no British.
Peedee
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Agreed - we hardly ever meet Brits, and of course the Dutch all go home at the start of July when their ACSI discount ends.
We are always amazed when we get black to Roscoff with a battle scarred, travel stained old Eriba - having seen no Brits at all for weeks - and find ourselves in the ferry queue surrounded and dwarfed by dozens of huge, new, gleaming, white, spotless, shining British caravans. So do they polish them every day, and where do they all go? We never meet them at any site we ever go to.
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These things certainly do have an affect. We flew to the states (Boston) 3 weeks after 9/11. The small hotel (a guest house in the UK) was empty except for us. All the other guests, mainly American had cancelled, as they did not want to fly. After the hotel
we went on for 2 weeks touring in a Motorhome. All the campsites were quite empty. Again, talking with the owners, late cancelations as result of 9/11.0 -
These things certainly do have an affect. We flew to the states (Boston) 3 weeks after 9/11. The small hotel (a guest house in the UK) was empty except for us. All the other guests, mainly American had cancelled, as they did not want to fly. After the hotel
we went on for 2 weeks touring in a Motorhome. All the campsites were quite empty. Again, talking with the owners, late cancelations as result of 9/11.i was in US on 9/11, I was in Nice about 3 weeks ago, Turkey soon after that, stayed in Woodhall Spa (nr Spalding) earlier in the year.....one never knows whats going to happen anywhere in this daft world of ours, nor at what time...i was even on a train
yesterday (not in Germany....)none of the recent events will change any plans we have, there are plenty of other things that influence what we do....but not these....
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