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[Varche]

Anyone on here in the UK planning or hoping to take a foreign holiday this year?

Driving to France, flying to Italy, ferry to Spain or what have you. Maybe further afield.

Just interested in what people are hoping to do or indeed got booked Covid permitting.

We are hoping to visit friends and family in England and Scotland and maybe even come back through Ireland and ferry back to Spain in the autumn. Bit concerned about both England and Spain infection rates which are definitely going the wrong way.

[BazaJT]

Not planning on doing a holiday anywhere this year-or any other year for that matter,I don't do holidays at all well and prefer just to have days out to places that are of interest to me.

[Rangie]

No foreign holidays for us until normality returns  so doubt if we will ever go abroad again for some while, have used the caravan a couple of times this year next jaunt in September to Yorkshire.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I think you've gotta be off your rocker to go abroad right now. 

Still it gives people something to whine about to the BBC when they unexpectedly find themselves forking out thousands for a quarantine hotel, because Grant Shapps misread the data. 

[New POD]

Our project team is sending 6 people out to Utah at the weekend, to spend 2 weeks proving a system to the USAF.
So far, 2 of them have their National Interest Exemption come through, from the US Embassy. Whether the bother 4 get to go is anyone's guess.
I suggested sending me, because I'd divert on the way back to Ohio to see my sister for a few days.
Apparently they don't need my skills, which is true.

[Doctor Gollum]

Hoping to go to the Canaries in November. And technically an essential worker, so see what that does to quarantine... And if I have to self isolate, then it's because I have caught something

[omegod]

Hanging fire to see what the world is like mid September, may grab a cheap weeks all inclusive somewhere if it looks calm. I'm front line NHS but don't think we are exempt from quarantine anymore sadly but could really use a weeks break    The wife isn't keen but I'll happily send her a postcard 

[Auto Addict]

There is no way I would contemplate a foreign holiday during the current situation.

[Doctor Gollum]

There is no way I would contemplate a foreign holiday during the current situation.

Apparently you have a greater chance of catching it at home than in Spain...

[Nick W]

There is no way I would contemplate a foreign holiday during the current situation.

Apparently you have a greater chance of catching it at home than in Spain...

The main reason not to go abroad is whether you'll be able to come back home. A situation that could change between getting in the car and arriving at the port...

[Rangie]

There is no way I would contemplate a foreign holiday during the current situation.

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Exactly right , sitting on a plane with countless others , absolutely no way.

[Varche]

Somebody is travelling or the airlines are flying empty planes.!

“ There were 489 flights between Spain and the United Kingdom programmed for Monday, three times more than a week ago – on July 12 there were just 152 flights. The most active airports are Palma de Mallorca, with 113 flights; Ibiza (70); Alicante-Elche (62); and Málaga (59)“

From this newspaper article. https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2021-07-20/uk-tourists-return-to-spain-flight-bookings-triple-since-change-to-quarantine-rules.html

[Rangie]

Somebody is travelling or the airlines are flying empty planes.!

“ There were 489 flights between Spain and the United Kingdom programmed for Monday, three times more than a week ago – on July 12 there were just 152 flights. The most active airports are Palma de Mallorca, with 113 flights; Ibiza (70); Alicante-Elche (62); and Málaga (59)“

From this newspaper article. https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2021-07-20/uk-tourists-return-to-spain-flight-bookings-triple-since-change-to-quarantine-rules.html

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Good luck to them.

[Doctor Gollum]

They're constantly tweaking the flying programme to try and meet demand as the restrictions keep changing. And all those places you named are concentrations of second homes.

Had an aircraft the other day, as an example, which took 106 people to TFS and returned with 45.

Having to work from home for a week when they get back won't actually affect alot of people.

And from what JVT was saying the other day, being outside in the sunshine is one of the lowest risk places to be, so you're undoubtedly better off on Maspalomas Beach than you would be at the local rec

[TheBoy]

Just got back from Cornwall. Thats a foreign holiday


Do have some flights to somewhere in a several weeks, but expecting not to be able to use them.