CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 5:50 pm August 14, 2020 / 8:43 AM / Updated 11 minutes ago
Britons rush home from France to beat new quarantine rules
Alistair Smout, Tangi Salaün

4 Min Read

LONDON/RESSONS-SUR-MATZ, France (Reuters) - Britons rushed to get back from summer holidays in France on Friday after their government said it would soon impose a 14-day quarantine on travellers from across the Channel due to rising coronavirus infections.

Britain’s government announced late on Thursday that it would impose a quarantine from 0300 GMT on Saturday on arrivals from France, giving an estimated 160,000 UK holidaymakers there just over 24 hours to try to get home to avoid isolating.

The sudden rule change dealt a fresh blow to tourists, airlines and tour operators all hoping for holidays after the pandemic, which has left many travel groups cash-strapped and facing an uncertain future.

Many British tourists headed towards the French port of Calais hoping to catch a ferry or a shuttle train home in time.

“We’ve changed our plans when we heard the news last night. We decided to head back home a day early to miss the quarantine,” one British woman at a service station on the motorway to Calais told Reuters.

During their week’s camping holiday in the south of France, her family had met fewer people than on a typical day in their hometown of Guildford, southern England, she added.

The new quarantine rules apply to France, the second most popular holiday destination for Britons, the Netherlands and the Mediterranean island of Malta, transport minister Grant Shapps said.
Full article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... 5A0Q0?il=0

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:18 pm

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 5:50 pm August 14, 2020 / 8:43 AM / Updated 11 minutes ago
Britons rush home from France to beat new quarantine rules
Alistair Smout, Tangi Salaün

4 Min Read

LONDON/RESSONS-SUR-MATZ, France (Reuters) - Britons rushed to get back from summer holidays in France on Friday after their government said it would soon impose a 14-day quarantine on travellers from across the Channel due to rising coronavirus infections.

Britain’s government announced late on Thursday that it would impose a quarantine from 0300 GMT on Saturday on arrivals from France, giving an estimated 160,000 UK holidaymakers there just over 24 hours to try to get home to avoid isolating.

The sudden rule change dealt a fresh blow to tourists, airlines and tour operators all hoping for holidays after the pandemic, which has left many travel groups cash-strapped and facing an uncertain future.

Many British tourists headed towards the French port of Calais hoping to catch a ferry or a shuttle train home in time.

“We’ve changed our plans when we heard the news last night. We decided to head back home a day early to miss the quarantine,” one British woman at a service station on the motorway to Calais told Reuters.

During their week’s camping holiday in the south of France, her family had met fewer people than on a typical day in their hometown of Guildford, southern England, she added.

The new quarantine rules apply to France, the second most popular holiday destination for Britons, the Netherlands and the Mediterranean island of Malta, transport minister Grant Shapps said.
Full article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... 5A0Q0?il=0

It's a typical British farce. Interestingly, France has imposed similar reciprocal 14 days quarantine rules on UK travellers to France. They are not even claiming it is because of infection rates - on no - it just because they want to be petty about it. So, anyone who was still planning to visit France and can happily self isolate on their return are now going nowhere, so they have killed off whatever tourism between the UK and France remained.

And we think we are going to be able to do a deal with the EU on fishing with the French at the table? Bon chance

God'sGift wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 2:51 pm why are all the sheep rushing 'home' back to UK?
Most prob don't need to, but are just indoctrinated by the Nanny State, and hence willingly oblige - let's see how loudly they bleat when the furlough ends!

God'sGift wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 2:51 pm why are all the sheep rushing 'home' back to UK?
Most prob don't need to, but are just indoctrinated by the Nanny State, and hence willingly oblige - let's see how loudly they bleat when the furlough ends!

Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:56 pm

God'sGift wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 2:51 pm why are all the sheep rushing 'home' back to UK?
Most prob don't need to, but are just indoctrinated by the Nanny State, and hence willingly oblige - let's see how loudly they bleat when the furlough ends!

Maybe because in France we don't host tourists for free ?

Never been on holiday abroad ? You have to pay all with a plastic card, or with numbered papers stripes with dead people's faces on it.
We call that "money". Make sure to bring enough, otherwise you might end up in tricky situations, awaiting deportation just like in Kow....
It's just a very common thing, really.

So, the "sheeps" are acting responsibly to me. Not like like their representatives....

cptrelentless wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 2:25 am
I thought you got quarantined on arrival, so your "furlough" was in Clink or some other hostel.