Vacation V Staycation Costs
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Great news David!
We took our eldest daughter for her jab yesterday, she has no transport and has been feeling quite isolated, and excited as she was I think the fact we came home via M&S food hall was perhaps the highlight!
We cant wait to see our grandchildren, one spent the whole of lock down 1 with us, he was here before is started, but some we have not seen, in the flesh since Boxing Day 2019.
So with them in Northampton, eldest Granddaughter in Manchester and eldest Grandson in London we will likely spend the summer on family visits.
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Given the escalation on the continent, I can see domestic restrictions ending in June but not necessarily overseas ones. Introducing this £5k fine legislation just for a matter of months hardly seems worth the admin. We aren't going anywhere 'over there' anytime soon. Equally if activities on the continent are seriously restricted due to Covid, would we want to go anyway?
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CY, for us its best summed up by "comfortable".
If the factors which need to be met for us to even consider over there-its legal, we are allowed in and no quarantine, at either end-it would still be a case of "OK, will we be comfortable when we get there"?
I think social distancing is somewhat ingrained now and, for that reason, our original destination, Lago Trasimeno, is out as this was to enable visits to lovely old Italian hill towns, you know, the ones with very narrow streets and crowds of people!
Face masks indoors I think will be expected for some time to come but if it was a requirement elsewhere, as has been widely seen, we would give it a miss, as you say, who would want to go anyway?
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Spain says it will allow in Brits as of end of March provided you have a negative covid test, but the vast majority of people who live in Spain are not happy.
They are still not allowed to travel outside of the province they live in, so my daughter who lives in the provence of Valencia will not be able to travel to her holiday cottage in a village just outside Loha for the Easter hols because that is in the province of Granada. But who cares we will not be allowed to travel anyway, so sit back and let the Germans doing the spreading, we will just continue vaxing
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Suspect the simple response, to the repeated pointless questions, as no one knows, will be that May 2021 is the earliest-so not iffy, just necessarily flexible.
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The wording of the roadmap means all dates are flexible, or iffy.😀
Only when the government is sure that it is safe to move from one step to the next will the final decision be made. The decision will be based on four tests:
the vaccine deployment programme continues successfully
evidence shows vaccines are sufficiently effective in reducing hospitalisations and deaths in those vaccinated
infection rates do not risk a surge in hospitalisations which would put unsustainable pressure on the NHS
our assessment of the risks is not fundamentally changed by new Variants of ConcernData not dates are the buzz words I believe.
France in September is looking very iffy.☹️
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I was not disagreeing with you, just, as I posted, saying what I thought the response would be to any assertion, to Boris, that his plan was 'iffy'.
As the thread is related to foreign travel that was the date, in May I was referring to. June, I believe, is the lifting of all restrictions?
Of course it would help if our vans/MH were classed as a second home as trips abroad to those, for purposes of checking or selling them,are, apparently to be allowed.
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Just been listening to Michael O'Leary, the boss man of Ryan Air and he is so optimistic about summer holidays going ahead he is laying on extra flights for June July and August. His reasoning for this is all the back log of vouchers for postponed holiday to be used and the coming increase of vaccine availability across countries which will result in a speed up of vaccinations in the next 2/3 of months which along with lobbying from hoteliers and countries with a large dependency on tourism will result in the opening up of boarders.
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Ryanair flights start from Newquay, to Alicante and Faro, early April-must be for the second home owners!
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We've had a moat since the end of the last ice age. Trouble is, the drawbridge is stuck down.
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Had email from Cunard yesterday telling me their "Summer at sea" cruises would soon be on sale.
I had a look to check prices etc, and they really are looking to be flexible with the only details, of the itinerary, being that you leave from Southampton..........................................and return to Southampton!
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