Trip to the South of France
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Hi Allenandjean
My full comment was this
if the worse did happen we will pay for health care but if it wasn't a life or death emergency I would get us home anyway.
I still stand by this, I haven't visited a doctor or hospital for myself since 1994 and it was for a nose bleed during a Rugby game. So If it wasn't life or death I would get home or pay for help. I have stuck to the rules and followed the advice so far while working all the way through this and I believe the risk of getting infected will be very low by July so I am prepared to take the risk and enjoy a holiday.
If we were in a vulnerable category through age or illness I wouldn't even consider going.
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If you have holiday insurance it should cover you for everything but Covid19 - and my take is that we now know enough about the symptoms of Covid19 to be able to set off back to the UK under our own steam BEFORE it becomes incapacitating. Symptoms take days to develop into a full-blown disease, and even then only a very small minority end up in hospital.
We will be taking the same risk when we go back to our French house this year - and if we start to have symptoms we will set off back to the UK immediately. Even from the very south of France where we have a holiday home we can be back in the UK after approximately a twelve hour drive, which is possible with two drivers.
We are much older than Rich81 (I think) but otherwise fit and would take our temperatures before even thinking of setting off, and then regularly during our journey and our stay in France. We'd wear masks when putting outselves in the company of others, and take food with us for the journey and for our 'self-isolation'.
I think the whole country will have to take some risks eventually otherwise we may be in lockdown forever. There are those who are very risk-averse and I accept that they will obviously take longer, but there are some of us who are willing to step out there and accept a level of risk which we feel able to cope with.1 -
When your travel insurance removes the cover for Covid 19 it will also remove any cover for any event related to Covid 19, such as delays and company failures that could impact on your trip
To plan to travel back to the UK after you are showing the symptoms of Covid 19 strikes me as very irresponsible and is completely against government/medical advice
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Not all travel insurance removes cover for Covid19.
Staysure is one which does give medical cover if you develop that disease whilst overseas.
Choose your travel insurance wisely.
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We have made our minds up to leave for France round about the 23rd of this month. As we already live on the Continent, we're not restricted by any quarantine requirement and both of the borders that we have to cross (Germany-Switzerland, Switzerland-France) are due to open for leisure travel on the 15th. I'll report on my experience as we go along. Got to book the site first, though. It opened for French residents on the 2nd June.
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Your feedback will be very useful Lutz. We still intend to go back to Italy, ideally 3rd week July. Campsites have opened in Italy too although the numbers on site are pretty low at the moment. As AD says, if others are waiting for a vaccine they will probably have a long wait. Anyone can identify a risk. It’s the assessment of that risk that’s more challenging.
Good luck
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Your feedback will indeed be very useful Lutz. Please make it a new discussion so that its easily available. We have not given up on France later in the summer therefore news as to what you are finding on campsites facility and organisation wise will be very welcome.
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I can only echo the above posts. Your feedback would be very welcome Lutz.
We have not given up hope of going to France/Spain come September. It might not be for the 3 months originally planned but even 4 or 5 weeks would be nice.
Horrible dreich day here today
could do with sun and shorts 
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This is dated the 29th May but makes for quite encouraging reading.
We are due to travel on 19th July for three weeks in Northern France travelling Hull- Zeebrugge then driving over border from Belgium into France.
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We are due to travel on 19th July for three weeks in Northern France travelling Hull- Zeebrugge then driving over border from Belgium into France
I know things could change, but as it stands at present even though France will open its borders on the 15th June if you are entering from the UK you will be required to isolate for 14 days until such time that the UK gov. decides to abandon this silly rule for people coming into the UK, I guess this still will be the case even going via Belgium ?
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19th July for three weeks takes the return into the UK until 9th August. I will eat my hat if there is quarantine on arrival in UK by then.
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agreed but if you travel out on the 19th July if quarantine is still in force in the UK for inbound, then the French have siad they will force you to isolate for 2 weeks when you enter France.
Personally i think all this quaratine stuff will be over by end of month, but we also need the FCO to life this no travel unless essential ban otherwise no insurance company will cover you for breakdown or illness, and within Spain there are still a lot of internal travel restrictions e.g. you cannot travel from the Alicanti region into the Mucia region but all this should change on i think the 1st July when the corvid emergency procedures end.
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Quote; We are due to travel on 19th July for three weeks in Northern France travelling Hull- Zeebrugge then driving over border from Belgium into France.Unquote.
Keep a close watch on your sailings, as currently, P & O have suspended all sailings between Hull and Zeebrugge. You may well end up in Europort.
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Apparently the insurance angle isn't strictly correct - for breakdown and car insurance, unless they have a clause in the policy to say changes can be made without advising the client. Everyone needs to carefully read the small print of their own insurance policy and if they are doubtful to consult their insurer. But some people have received assurance that they WILL be covered as their terms and conditions when they took out the policy can't be changed in this way.
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I received a call from the main site in the south of France yesterday to confirm they are fully open and we are welcome there to enjoy our holiday. They said everything is open shop,restaurant, bakery, swimming pool and Entertainment. The lady said we will need to bring a mask for reception and entering the shop which isn't a problem. We are very confident that we will be going now and we cant wait
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So how does it work in practice in the swimming pool? By appointment? No masks presumably, a bit pointless, unless not actually swimming
I'd be very dubious personally about using a swimming pool, but accept that not everyone will be the same. Although at the end of the day, the fact that things are opening up again, doesn't mean that the virus has miraculously gone away.
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I was on Youtube last night watching a couple of Vanners driving into Calais for their next adventure-no probs & no delays so it’s certainly doable👍🏻😊
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Better hope the FCO changes its advice PDQ or you are going to be uninsured.
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Hi David, I see that BF are not using 5 of their ships-Poole route dropped completely till end of August at least- so maybe that will have a knock on effect on availability when coupled with the reduced capacity on board due to distancing measures.
We are not in any rush at the moment but, if we do decide on trip, now that it looks as if the FCO travel ban is to be lifted, then I think we may need to be a little more flexible.
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I think that B/F have announced all their sailings up to the start of November 2020, and I don't think they have any more sailings to release up till that point.
Their published timetable for dates from 1st November 2020 and on into 2021 is due out on 22 July 2020, but as they haven't yet licked their current on line amended timetable into shape I wouldn't hold your breath.
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