New tougher Spanish travel restrictions

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I was thinking of ferrying to Spain immediately after the end of the latest U.K. travel restrictions, assuming travel abroad for non essential reasons is reinstated of course, but the latest news has put me off completely until regional borders in Spain open up again. If you cannot drive down to Andalusia what’s the point?




To have a MH stuck in a compound with nowhere to go is extremely frustrating! No doubt for everybody in the same position.
 
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Moped said:
I was thinking of ferrying to Spain immediately after the end of the latest U.K. travel restrictions, assuming travel abroad for non essential reasons is reinstated of course, but the latest news has put me off completely until regional borders in Spain open up again. If you cannot drive down to Andalusia what’s the point?



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This Coronavirus situation is hardly a UK-only issue. Why on earth would anyone think travelling around any country is same as it was and it is only the UK has restrictions? And that those restrictions will not change at very short notice anywhere.

I think the last three words really sum up the concept of internation travel for pleasure right now and the next few months .... "what's the point?"
 
Moped said:
.... To have a MH stuck in a compound with nowhere to go is extremely frustrating! No doubt for everybody in the same position.
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You've seen everything the UK has to offer I am guessing?
Maybe there is "somewhere" to go in the approximately 250,000 km2 area available to you without the need for even a passport?

Sorry to seem picky, but it is annoying when visiting your own country is so totally discounted.
 
Just hoping the pandemic will have blown out sufficiently to allow a trip to Holland and Spain for the 2021 Grand Prix weekends. Going to be a long haul this winter without our usual few weeks of Canarian sunshine as well.

Better safe than sorry ...

Cheers

H
 
John H said:
The Spanish Foreign Ministry has issued a statement that anyone with proof of a definite booking can transit through areas that are otherwise restricted. Several motorhomes have arrived at our campsite in Almeria Province in the past few days and all have reported no problems at all.
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But why bother. Everywhere is shut just like it is in the Uk.
 
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But why bother. Everywhere is shut just like it is in the Uk.
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Depends what you want. Everything is not shut where we are - just come back from a very nice lunch at a restaurant in San Jose, following doing the weekly food shop in Campohermoso. The beaches are open, the stunning landscape around these parts is open and the weather is glorious. We are in an area where the population density is low and, in our immediate area, there have been no recorded cases of the virus. We feel very happy that we are here, among a small but very friendly group, and hopefully we will be joined by other friends in December who can't wait for the English lockdown to end so they can get the ferry and join us. :)
 
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wildebus said:
You've seen everything the UK has to offer I am guessing?
Maybe there is "somewhere" to go in the approximately 250,000 km2 area available to you without the need for even a passport?

Sorry to seem picky, but it is annoying when visiting your own country is so totally discounted.
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We go for the glorious winter Spanish warmth, a climate that permits a daily outdoor winter life wearing shorts and t shirt, fantastic scenery, walking and mountain biking, cheap wine, the later sunsets generally around 6pm in winter, and so on.

The U.K. is s no comparison in winter! We’ve done Cornwall in winter and 4 days in 7 it rains, gets dark at 4:30pm, the heating is on all the time, not enough sun for the daily solar panel top up, drying damp clothes not easy, everywhere you go is soft mud, sunbathing or sitting outside chatting to neighbours is hopeless (we don’t have an awning and simply sit under a canopy in Spain), and so on.
 
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I was thinking of ferrying to Spain immediately after the end of the latest U.K. travel restrictions, assuming travel abroad for non essential reasons is reinstated of course, but the latest news has put me off completely until regional borders in Spain open up again. If you cannot drive down to Andalusia what’s the point?




To have a MH stuck in a compound with nowhere to go is extremely frustrating! No doubt for everybody in the same position.
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I was thinking the same and then the lockdown was anounced, Im now thinking mid Jan/feb.
 
Moped said:
I was thinking of ferrying to Spain immediately after the end of the latest U.K. travel restrictions, assuming travel abroad for non essential reasons is reinstated of course, but the latest news has put me off completely until regional borders in Spain open up again. If you cannot drive down to Andalusia what’s the point?




To have a MH stuck in a compound with nowhere to go is extremely frustrating! No doubt for everybody in the same position.
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please take a look a the british coast , dont no were you live but,and i say but, if you travel 30 miles up or down the area were you live, you will be amaze at the new ground.you will find. not to mention councils, just say to the local shops, you not coming back, because your local council dont want us, ok pj and keep saying it,
 
wildebus said:
This Coronavirus situation is hardly a UK-only issue. Why on earth would anyone think travelling around any country is same as it was and it is only the UK has restrictions? And that those restrictions will not change at very short notice anywhere.

I think the last three words really sum up the concept of internation travel for pleasure right now and the next few months .... "what's the point?"
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That yellow thing in the sky that we see so little of in Blighty!!
 
The British countryside is lovely and less thorny than the Spanish. But in winter it is a dish served very cold and mostly damp! Underfoot, and from above, and for that matter from the side.
 
I don't like to say this but I would give Spain a miss this year many villages have been closed this you won't see on the news in some places you will need a pass to get through some campsites have been told how many they can let stay bars shops you can only let so many in at a time, I have friends that have been told by the police to stay were they are on our land in Portugal . So take care any one over here,(y)
 
wildebus said:
You've seen everything the UK has to offer I am guessing?
Maybe there is "somewhere" to go in the approximately 250,000 km2 area available to you without the need for even a passport?

Sorry to seem picky, but it is annoying when visiting your own country is so totally discounted.
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Not often I disagree with you David, #8 sums it up for me to. Although I wil try to spend a bit longer in the UK.
Remember, you have the advantage of not living in Northampton. lol
 
Trotter said:
Not often I disagree with you David, #8 sums it up for me to. Although I wil try to spend a bit longer in the UK.
Remember, you have the advantage of not living in Northampton. lol
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well, you southerners can go a few hundred miles south and be in the company of chip & mayonnaise eating, frog-leg munching and paella-sucking continentals. A few hundred miles south for me and I'm still north of the Watford Gap!
the sun will still be there next summer :)
 
wildebus said:
well, you southerners can go a few hundred miles south and be in the company of chip & mayonnaise eating, frog-leg munching and paella-sucking continentals. A few hundred miles south for me and I'm still north of the Watford Gap!
the sun will still be there next summer :)
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Looking at the map, coming south is all downhill
 
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