Portugal
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Yes, doesn’t solve any problems for those arriving on ferries, but good news for those opting to fly - could be tempted to escape, starting to dislike summer big time in the UK this year!
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Sounds to me like using Skyscanner.com for flights and then Booking.com for accommodation. There are bargains to be had.
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I know this subject has been done to death on here, but all I’ve heard about vehicle and recovery insurance invalidation seems to be speculative and variable between insurers. Do you know 100% from your insurers that you will not be covered? EHIC will remain valid and that section of Spain between Santander and North Portugal isn’t exactly bustling so relatively easy to isolate. Worse case scenario, if the worse happened and you contracted CV in Spain or on the ferry symptoms probably wouldn’t be obviously until you were well into Portugal. Obviously a risk and not for the faint-hearted but not completely impossible either. In future you’ll remember the things you did do, not what you avoided.
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The thing that would concern me most would be getting the car & van home again. Who knows what might happen with BF in the interim?
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very good point, also infection rates in Spain still on the increase, with talk of further lock downs, and if they should lock down a certain region it might be very difficult getting back to Santander.
Decided being without insurance was not a good idea, you can be as careful as you like but as with most things you cannot control someone else, going to a nice site in Devon instead, provisionally for 1 month, only 4 hours from home so no big worries.
There will always be another day and to be continually watching the news just in case you have to make a run for it is not my idea of having a relaxing time.
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The situation generally is too volatile, IMHO, and whilst the ferry is only ten minutes away, I'm resisting the temptation and sticking to the UK this year.
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Like AD we have insurance where the various elements all lapse if FCO advise affects any country you are going to visit at time of departure.
As for most it’s a balance of risk versus reward and at the moment the reward is being far outweighed by the risk and the measures needed to a valid that risk.
With that and the recent BF reductions in service it’s looking like an opportunity to make a quick autumn break are receding.
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Problem is you have to go through Spain where the infection rate is soaring.
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Crazy isn't it? The government say they're "guided by the science" which for weeks has been saying 20 per 100000 is the threshold for quarantine. Yet suddenly .... it's not!
Crazier still, fly into Bristol and if you live in Newport you have to quarantine but in Thornbury you're OK!
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+1
Weused to have a saying in school, joined up thinking!
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Which demonstrates the stupidity of splitting the country up.
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What a mess this country is making of quarantine.
So if Scotland and Wales are now saying it has to be done for Portugal does that mean you can or can't get insurance cover?
The way I understand it is the FCO advice is what the insurance companies go with.
Still not worried about doing quarantine if we had to on return, no hardship. The main concern is going without insurance cover, not for Covid but for everything else.
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Hi Tammy, whilst we are resigned to not going abroad this year like you it was not due to Covid but the more general insurance related issues.
Mu insurers, UK Insurance via a Nationwide account, told me verbally that I was not covered if FCO advice was against all but essential travel and my trip was not essential.
It now seems, from the Nationwide website, that I could possibly be covered depending on where I go and when.
So far as 'this country', do you mean England, Scotland or Wales??!
Like you, having to quarantine would not be a deciding factor for us so its down to a decision on the insurance.
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Hi A&J, your insurance is the same as mine. I haven't yet called them but might when we get back from this trip. We are still looking at going to Germany for a few weeks, keeping our eyes on how they are doing.
Re 'this country' I was including all of them as in the UK. I don't think any of them have covered themselves in glory. From what I read in the papers and see on the news we are not dealing with many things Covid very well, far to much indecision, then blaming others when it goes wrong.
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Why not say 'to heck with it all', go out for a 6 month holiday and worry about the situation when it is time to return, presuming no health problems stopping you.
After all, 2 weeks quarantine is hardly a life sentence upon your return in half a years time.
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Where's Edward 1 when you need him?
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I have no experience there but first saw reports of restricted overnight parking from irritated motorhomers in June 2020 - it seems the local people and the local governments were fed up with "wild camping" and unhygienic practices, and began to introduce regulations to divert motorhomes to authorised places. I am trying not to be judgemental, but there are quite a few comments for you to see on the specialised Motorhome forums.
Incidentally the French authorities cleared an encampment of motorhomes, caravans and shacks from the Plage de Piemanson on the Camargue coast for the same environmental reasons a year or two earlier.
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