France travel ban December 2021

[Fisherman]

The thing is though Bill, people can be too quick to call xenophobia over humour in my opinion.

Once humour goes out of the window we might as well give up.

That’s why I like Trevs posts on here.
Bottom line on all of this any country has the right to do what the French are doing. But I just hope they are doing this for all the right reasons. It seems ridiculous to stop someone travelling through France when they can show proof that they are heading for a ferry home to Blighty, and not stopping over.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Then I guess it cuts both ways and we should be back to banning travel either way, full stop.
At least while this omicron is doing the rounds, and until they have enough knowledge of how its going to affect health services.

Personally I think the world is in a right mess just now.
All that's happening is various types of 'fire fighting' and keeping fingers crossed.

Apart from the vaccines - which *appear* to at least gone some way to help - we still seem to be in the same sorry situation we were when the virus first started travelling the world back in late 2019

 

[Colinc]

Letting more in certainly won't help either us or where they are from when they return.

Entries to UK need a covid test before they travel and then to self-isolate before a day 2 PCR covid test proves negative. So this is not the source of the problem.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

That’s why I like Trevs posts on here.
Bottom line on all of this any country has the right to do what the French are doing. But I just hope they are doing this for all the right reasons. It seems ridiculous to stop someone travelling through France when they can show proof that they are heading for a ferry home to Blighty, and not stopping over.

Someone has posted on another thread that Macron has now clarified the situation.
Anyone with *residency in another EU country* can currently travel through France.

 

[Colinc]

It seems ridiculous to stop someone travelling through France when they can show proof that they are heading for a ferry home to Blighty, and not stopping over.

They were not stop people returning to Blighty. The short-livedproblem was in the other direction.

 

[Fisherman]

They were not stop people returning to Blighty. The short-livedproblem was in the other direction.

Did I not read earlier that folk in Spain and Portugal had problems getting home.
There seems a lack of clarity here.

 

[Robmac]

Entries to UK need a covid test before they travel and then to self-isolate before a day 2 PCR covid test proves negative. So this is not the source of the problem.

In no way am I saying that it is the source of the problem.

The simple fact is the more people we have travelling round this country the more chance there is of it spreading.

 

[Colinc]

Did I not read earlier that folk in Spain and Portugal had problems getting home.
There seems a lack of clarity here.

Maybe threads got twisted a little The original post was on people crossing from UK to France. The post on coming in other direction concerned test validity it think. But the 18th Dec new French rules has not stopped UK citizens returning to the UK if they have been out of UK for over 14 days.

 

[Fisherman]

In no way am I saying that it is the source of the problem.

The simple fact is the more people we have travelling round this country the more chance there is of it spreading.

Your only saying that because you don’t want us crossing over the border for your cheap booze

 

[Robmac]

Your only saying that because you don’t want us crossing over the border for your cheap booze

Darned straight Bill.

Keep your greedy hands on the Whisky!

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Did I not read earlier that folk in Spain and Portugal had problems getting home.
There seems a lack of clarity here.

What?! No!! It can't be

That's never happened before, I'm shocked to the core!

 

[Fisherman]

Darned straight Bill.

Keep your greedy hands on the Whisky!

Only a drunk Englishman full of SCOTCH could come out with that one Rob.
Possibly that’s why the French are banning us from Champagne

 

[colinm]

It would appear that Eurostar got carried away yet again, same as they did when restrictions where applied before Christmas.

 

[Robmac]

Only a drunk Englishman full of SCOTCH could come out with that one Rob.
Possibly that’s why the French are banning us from Champagne

I can't stand Scotch or Champagne Bill, I'm far too posh for that.

Give me a pint of 6X anytime!

(Unless it's one of Wully's expensive single malts)

 

[TJBi]

This issue has now been clarified, and gov.uk has been updated accordingly. https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/france/entry-requirements

The details on the French Embassy website are still somewhat confusing/ambiguous.

The prohibition never applied to UK residents returning to the UK, but had applied to UK nationals resident in EU countries other than France returning from the UK other than by air to residences in those EU countries.

 

[alcam]

I haven't seen any in this thread?

Maybe disagreement with the French policy rightly or wrongly but I can't see it as xenophobia.

Wasn't being totally serious Rob [haven't been since 1989] but the very title is a tad xenophobic . It infers the French are , again , at fault does it not ?
All they are doing is taking sensible measures against the bug . Some replies may have been attempts at humour . Some perhaps not

 

[Robmac]

Wasn't being totally serious Rob [haven't been since 1989] but the very title is a tad xenophobic . It infers the French are , again , at fault does it not ?
All they are doing is taking sensible measures against the bug . Some replies may have been attempts at humour . Some perhaps not

No I know Annie too well to deliberately act xenophobically if there is such a word. I bet she had a little smirk on her face though thinking about the replies that would come!

But you are right about sensible measures and I am all for that.

 

[campervanannie]

Wasn't being totally serious Rob [haven't been since 1989] but the very title is a tad xenophobic . It infers the French are , again , at fault does it not ?
All they are doing is taking sensible measures against the bug . Some replies may have been attempts at humour . Some perhaps not

Why is that someone always trying to male something out of nothing when I posted this I posted it on off topic instead of the European travel section as I did not believe it to be true and the title was a little tongue in cheek and I thought that the members that love to dig and delve into things would come back with the facts I was in no way being a tad xenophobi. But reading all the bumf on this it appears it is the French that have put this block on and that’s not me being xenophobic it’s fact and According to the news Macron has not clarified it he has suspended the ruling over the new year so that people can get home.

 

[mark61]

Everything is xenophobic to the xenophobist. Wouldn't be losing any sleep over those.

 

[Fisherman]

Why is that someone always trying to male something out of nothing when I posted this I posted it on off topic instead of the European travel section as I did not believe it to be true and the title was a little tongue in cheek and I thought that the members that love to dig and delve into things would come back with the facts I was in no way being a tad xenophobi. But reading all the bumf on this it appears it is the French that have put this block on and that’s not me being xenophobic it’s fact and According to the news Macron has not clarified it he has suspended the ruling over the new year so that people can get home.

Annie this is a very difficult way to communicate. Every post you make can be taken in different ways by different folk and for different reasons. What matters most is what you meant, not what others think you meant. I reckon we all did our best to de politicise something that is pure politics. Was your title xenophobic, well I did not think so, but others will, not worth getting upset or angry over now is it Annie.