Vacation V Staycation Costs
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Of course not but, as ever, you put your own interpretation on my words just for the hell of it.
Incidentally, you'll find pasties predominate here rather than pies.
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What sort of costs are you thinking about? Ferry is booked and fixed. Sites are similar prices to before, as is fuel and food. Insurance may be a bit more, but as there is still a reciprocal agreement I don’t anticipate a vast increase. A vaccine passport is likely to be part of the covid app and cost free. Perhaps the cost of a covid test or two. Although perhaps if the French want our business enough, they will subsidise the outbound one.😀
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I thought it was obvious I was saying I would take care. Surely every sensible person will? No one is suggesting you should not visit as long as the rules permit it. My gripe is with those who do not obey the law.
A rise in infections is dreaded, apart from the obvious reason, in view of the NHS facilities available which are not geared to cope with huge increases in the population.
Pasties - Philps if you’re way down west. Cream teas (jam first) should contain Roddas clotted cream for preference.
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EU passport or no EU passport covid-19 does not know what you have, so flaunting the rules without a valid reason, and visiting a country with very high levels of infections would seem to be pretty irresponsible in my book
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Presumably he went before the "reason to travel" forms took effect, as I don't think "because I want to" would be accepted as a legitimate reason?
Seems a curious thing to do at the moment, given that the rates here are so much lower and given all the quarantine and testing he will be subjecting himself and his son to on return to the UK.
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Once words like diatribe, fear, glee, start to crop up, it’s best to end any attempt at debate. Blinkers are on, as stated, no interest in anyone else’s point of view, so best to walk away... 🤷♀️
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If you’re up Tintagel/Padstow/Port Issac way, you can’t beat a pasty from Aunt Avices on the St Kew Highway (A39). If you’re around St Austell Bay area, you can’t beat a pasty from the Kings Arms in Mevagissey, Normally a pub, but the landlord is currently running it as a bakery, and very good it is too.
Trewithen Farm cream is good too.
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Now we're on to important stuff! (
).For us, it's hard to match the pasties from St Agnes bakery - drive along to St Agnes Head and eat them there looking out over the coastline down to St Ives. Years ago the best (and biggest) cream teas we ever had was from a small place in Porthcurno called Louisa's - huge home made scones, more jam and proper clotted cream than you could ever use and a bottomless teapot. Sadly Louisa and her husband are no longer with us. Farmhouse cream teas are always a good bet, there is one just off the main road between Perranporth and Newquay which does a corker.
(Both the pasties and cream tea are likely to work out cheaper than crossing the channel for them, just to get back on topic!
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And who was it ?, or perhaps many who said you had to go to France to get good food, top the Pastie off with a nice bottle of rough cider, making my mouth water, will be there early to mid June
"For us, it's hard to match the pasties from St Agnes bakery - drive along to St Agnes Head and eat them there looking out over the coastline down to St Ives. Years ago the best (and biggest) cream teas we ever had was from a small place in Porthcurno called Louisa's - huge home made scones, more jam and proper clotted cream than you could ever use and a bottomless teapot"
stop it, food fit for a king and at a comparable cost i am sure
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Good luck with that, the last time I asked that question I had to leave Cornwall. . .Very, very fast🤷🏻♂️🙄😂
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Tch, tch! P h i l p s of H a y l e.
Theres nothing at all wrong with G*nst*rs if all you want is to add oily mush to your compost bin.
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Don’t knock it...700 people earn a living make that stuff much loved by football fans across the country.
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Yes😁
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Trust me, on a freezing cold, -5c night at Old Trafford, you will use anything to keep your hands warm😁 Bovril, Pukka Pie, ropey Pasty, bilge coffee. Brrrrr....🥶🥶
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Well, here we are.
A new day, the sun is shining and I will be of for my daily walk, collect the paper then off to Talland Bay later for a work related visit.
None of which is related to my OP but that darned Fred Drift seems to affect most of us from time to time.
I have had another look at the options and whist Cornwall, other holiday venues are available, is obviously the best place to be, but if you wish to cross the water then, as AD commented it can be very cost effective.
The cost of a combined ferry & site/vouchers, via the ckub, could even be less than coming down here if you use a site in Normandy/Brittany, for example, and a BF Portsmouth to Caen crossing.
I like others do not take kindly to the people who think the rues dont apply but that aside do wonder what it is that some seem to want us to do.
I have no intention of endangering myself, my family or anyone else but it seems that some think that any travel, will result in disaster.
As far as where we go, the most uncomfortable we have felt in the last year was walking through Fowey and St Ives-narrow streets and lots of people, which is why we wouldn't be going to our intended Italian destination this year even if allowed-neither of which we have repeated.
Back to costs, I can only speak for myself but any requirement to have tests or quarantine would make travel abroad a likely non starter so no cost would arise, however, I cannot see that being necessary once we are given the OK by HMG.
Oh, and the best pasty is made by my wife-she never looks at CT, but just in case.
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A&J, I doubt anyone really cares for your need or not to travel into mainland Europe if you want to go then go🤷🏻♂️. I personally hope you do get over there this year👍🏻. It’s the manic need of ‘life or death’ that some of you seem to be in to travel. I’ve seen the statements here-‘I’m going & no one will stop me’, followed by-‘I’ll see how it goes’, then-‘as soon as I get a ferry I’m going’. Really?, it’s yours & others lives at stake. I’m all for anyone who no longer wants to be on this Earth but not take others with them☹️
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"I’ve seen the statements here-‘I’m going & no one will stop me’, followed by-‘I’ll see how it goes’, then-‘as soon as I get a ferry I’m going’. Really?,"
for me, it is not the going, it is the coming back that concerns me. We have been to hell and back within the UK to get to a position whereby we might just be able to unlock the prison gates, however, at present, some of the places many are planning to visit are in a terrible state with covid-19 running wild. When you visit these countries at some stage you have to return, carrying what???
if the countries we are allowed to go to were on a level playing field with the UK in respect of the containment of covid-19, then go for it, hopefully i will be one of the many in 2022, but why put all we have been through at risk just for the sake of a trip overthere, fine as some have said, "we can find an isolated site away from others and feel just as safe as being at home" but you still have to return to a port and mingle with thousands who may not have been as careful as you, already the scientists are predicting another wave of covid-19 in the Autumn, the more people travel to high risk areas and return the more likely this will be
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Did anyone else see the Turkish tourism guy on TV this morning saying that they were going to open up the country to visitors as from (I think) mid April and without anyone having to be tested! This is in spite of their Covid levels increasing. He claimed that we Brits would be OK because we have been vaccinated. Our vaccine is not 100% effective, nowhere near, so what would we bring back into the country? In any case we can't travel overseas for a holiday for several more weeks yet.
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Madness! They're putting tourism income above all else.
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