It's regarded as non essential travel. If it wasn't I'd be there now.Does anyone know if someone owning a small holiday apartment in Spain gets any priority to travel re. maintainence letting it out etc.I asked HSE about this some time ago and the said that i should ask the guardai.Thanks
Thanks Leper.Much appreciated.It's regarded as non essential travel. If it wasn't I'd be there now.
1. I'm not a bit surprised. Loads of people still travelling abroad knowing that they'll not be challenged by anybody and if they are they'll have an appointment with some Spanish dentist or Hungarian breast enhancer. They don't care about anybody, why should you care about them? Report them, I would. It's never the wrong time to do the right thing.This morning I met a guy I hadn't seen for over a year. Thing is, he's got a fabulous tan and after a short chat he told me he was away in a "sort of" camper van for the last 6 months. Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain and parts of France. Arrived home a week ago via ferry from Bilbao to Rosslare. Yes, he was supposed to get a covid test before coming, but never did, got a false one for €20 instead and never isolated after arriving, and has no intention of getting a vaccine either. I told the person they were being very uncivil and they weren't at all correct in going about mixing with everyone, and that if they wanted to go abroad again they would need a vaccine. I was very quickly told that there was no need for a vaccine and a black market one was very easy to get. To say I was angry is being mild. What's it all about when this is going on? Felt like reporting him, but couldn't do it. Anyone else meet people like this and what would you have done?
Many people in the south of Spain have been complaining of the foreign and Spanish campervans roaming freely in all areas over the past months. The difference there the police call to the campervans and prosecute.Hopefully, he was winding you up or you are trying to wind posters up, I don't think it was as simple as you explained to travel around Europe in a camper van and not get arrested and camper van taken, As an example and Leper should know for most of the last 6 months you would not be allowed to move around Spain in fact you could only go a few miles from your base,
What you explained might work in Ireland no in Europe,
If I met a person who was after coming back to Ireland in the last two weeks I would not put myself in danger by spending time talking to them But I think you are safe enough he probably was just out of the sunbed when you met him,
I can assure you he wasn't winding me up. He headed off last December and went to Portugal. Have no idea what ferry he went on, or where he drove from after Portugal but i've already pointed out the countries he went to. From there he just did his thing. Lives off the state pension, around the 70 mark, free spirit type of fella, invite you to meet for a snack and you'd end up paying for it, ALWAYS. Knows what he's entitled to and that's it. Illegal means nothing to him. Couldn't give a toss about anything, or anyone and gets away with it. I've no doubt he'll be off again in a few weeks, covid or no covid. Sorry if it comes across as a bit of bull, I can assure you it's 100% true.Hopefully, he was winding you up or you are trying to wind posters up, I don't think it was as simple as you explained to travel around Europe in a camper van and not get arrested and camper van taken, As an example and Leper should know for most of the last 6 months you would not be allowed to move around Spain in fact you could only go a few miles from your base,
What you explained might work in Ireland no in Europe,
If I met a person who was after coming back to Ireland in the last two weeks I would not put myself in danger by spending time talking to them But I think you are safe enough Hopefully he was just out of the sunbed when you met him,
Have these people been fully vaccinated?I work in a Covid unit and will not be flying until late autumn at the earliest. About 1/4 of people we see have recently been on a plane and some have admitted to using a forged PCR test result. Just not worth the risk.
No, we haven't seen anyone fully vaccinated who required admission.Have these people been fully vaccinated?
Just wanted to say thank you to you and your colleagues for the absolutely outstanding work you guys have done for us allI work in a Covid unit
If it's so easy make a killing in tourism here, why isn't there more jumping on the bandwagon?I booked London in late July and a one-way ticket back to Alicante Spain in late SEPT. London is the one looking dodgy. Spain I have a house and I'm fully vaxed. Doubling prices for holiday houses in IRL is obscene but no surprise. During the crazy Celtic tiger days, Ilooked at a long weekend in Donegal and it would have cost me more than a week in Vienna - Vienna! What kind of Eden do some of our lads in tourism think we live it? Yeats' September 1913 comes to mind, about merchants, but the shoe fits: "What need you being come to sense but fumble in the greasy till and add the half-pence to the pence..."
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