Well I wasn't thinking about it until now!

[Kendhni]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/millions-fear ... 34421.html

[Onelife]

When you consider that an insect crawling into a Pitot tube has brought planes down down then l think they are right to be worried.....I hope inspection and servicing won't be compromised by the rush to get planes back in the sky.

[towny44]

I think I might be just as worried about the pilots being ring rusty, or short of match practise.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Hadn't occurred to me either. Hopefully planes' return to the sky will be in stages so they'll have time to check them thoroughly as they go. I'm pretty sure I read that pilots and cabin crew had continued practicing/training in simulators. In any case I won't be first in the rush to go abroad with the current cases building in Europe. In fact I hope the government will resist pressure and keep the brakes on for a while yet. And in the meantime ramp up checks/quarantine on "essential" travellers.

[Stephen]

Hadn't occurred to me either. Hopefully planes' return to the sky will be in stages so they'll have time to check them thoroughly as they go. I'm pretty sure I read that pilots and cabin crew had continued practicing/training in simulators. In any case I won't be first in the rush to go abroad with the current cases building in Europe. In fact I hope the government will resist pressure and keep the brakes on for a while yet. And in the meantime ramp up checks/quarantine on "essential" travellers.

or coming down in stages

[screwy]

Being so cheerful keeps you going..

[Stephen]

Always look on the bright side of life

[barney]

Anyone even considering a holiday abroad this year needs their bumps felt.
Stay local
Stay safe
Hopefully 2022 will be better

[towny44]

I am considering one since we have a Med cruise planned for October, booked in September 2019, although with the current situation in Europe, I doubt it will go ahead. But I am more confident that the next one to the Canaries in Feb 2022 on Iona might well be OK.

[Stephen]

Anyone even considering a holiday abroad this year needs their bumps felt.
Stay local
Stay safe
Hopefully 2022 will be better

All things being well we’ll be down you way mid May for a week. Well the east side anyway

I can hear the boarding and nail guns already

[Quizzical Bob]

Anyone even considering a holiday abroad this year needs their bumps felt.
Stay local
Stay safe
Hopefully 2022 will be better

We’d be off tomorrow if we could. We have a lot of life still left to live and not a lot of time left to live it.

[barney]

Anyone even considering a holiday abroad this year needs their bumps felt.
Stay local
Stay safe
Hopefully 2022 will be better

We’d be off tomorrow if we could. We have a lot of life still left to live and not a lot of time left to live it.

Maybe you’ll have even less unless this is brought under control.
The next one could be the holiday of your life.
Foreign travel has been the driver of the pandemic since day one.

[oldbluefox]

Anyone even considering a holiday abroad this year needs their bumps felt.
Stay local
Stay safe
Hopefully 2022 will be better

Spread the word there's loads of beautiful places down south.
There was a farmer on the box this morning saying he is dreading the end of lockdown if the ending of the last one is anything to go by - wild camping, fires caused by barbecues, litter, human excrement, thoughtless parking............ The list is endless and very disheartening for those who care about the countryside. Images from Durdle Door were appalling and just makes you wonder what goes through these peoples minds to go somewhere beautiful and trash it.

It would be folly to book anywhere abroad whilst Europe is so slow in vaccinating everybody and the pandemic is still very active both in terms of catching t themselves or bringing it back with them.

[barney]

My obvious concern is that because of some selfish individuals who are so desperate to take a foreign holiday, someone here will lose their life.

[Stephen]

Anyone even considering a holiday abroad this year needs their bumps felt.
Stay local
Stay safe
Hopefully 2022 will be better

Spread the word there's loads of beautiful places down south.
There was a farmer on the box this morning saying he is dreading the end of lockdown if the ending of the last one is anything to go by - wild camping, fires caused by barbecues, litter, human excrement, thoughtless parking............ The list is endless and very disheartening for those who care about the countryside. Images from Durdle Door were appalling and just makes you wonder what goes through these peoples minds to go somewhere beautiful and trash it.

It would be folly to book anywhere abroad whilst Europe is so slow in vaccinating everybody and the pandemic is still very active both in terms of catching t themselves or bringing it back with them.

Very little.
You can only imagine how they live at home if they have no respect for others let alone themselves.

[Kendhni]

We’d be off tomorrow if we could. We have a lot of life still left to live and not a lot of time left to live it.

I'm with you QB. As soon as the government tells us it is safe, we are out of here (naturally following government advice). Our anti-bodies will be at peak performance before the end of April - so I have my bucket and spade packed and ready to go.

Still hoping that our Sep trip on Azura gets the go ahead (booked in 2019).


PS: In any other situation we would have been flying back from Dubai today after 2 weeks on Oceana. Going to miss that ship.

[barney]

If anyone is waiting for the government to proclaim it’s safe to travel abroad, you’ll be waiting a long time.
They are far more likely to say something like we don’t recommend but it’s at your risk.
As long as you quarantine on arrival back.

[Quizzical Bob]

Anyone even considering a holiday abroad this year needs their bumps felt.
Stay local
Stay safe
Hopefully 2022 will be better

We’d be off tomorrow if we could. We have a lot of life still left to live and not a lot of time left to live it.

Maybe you’ll have even less unless this is brought under control.
The next one could be the holiday of your life.
Foreign travel has been the driver of the pandemic since day one.

Driver of the pandemic? No it hasn’t. It’s the behaviour of the population that spreads it , especially the youngsters. There are a lot of Chicken Lickens running around scared that the sky is going to fall in.

We are not going to catch it and we are not going to die from it. What is the point of being alive in a lockdown?

[Quizzical Bob]

My obvious concern is that because of some selfish individuals who are so desperate to take a foreign holiday, someone here will lose their life.

Now you’re being ridiculous. You have as much chance of catching it in the UK as anywhere else.

[barney]

We’d be off tomorrow if we could. We have a lot of life still left to live and not a lot of time left to live it.

Maybe you’ll have even less unless this is brought under control.
The next one could be the holiday of your life.
Foreign travel has been the driver of the pandemic since day one.

Driver of the pandemic? No it hasn’t. It’s the behaviour of the population that spreads it , especially the youngsters. There are a lot of Chicken Lickens running around scared that the sky is going to fall in.

We are not going to catch it and we are not going to die from it. What is the point of being alive in a lockdown?

So, it clearly entered the U.K. by some other method than a person arriving from abroad, contaminated with the virus.
Right.
Nurse, he’s out of bed again

[Mervyn and Trish]

My obvious concern is that because of some selfish individuals who are so desperate to take a foreign holiday, someone here will lose their life.

Now you’re being ridiculous. You have as much chance of catching it in the UK as anywhere else.

Not on current figures you don't. And the worry is not just about catching it, it is about bringing home a variant we don't have yet, maybe one that the vaccinations we've been so successful at rolling out are less effective against.

Anyway a year ago weren't you the one who was cautious, telling us we'd locked down too late and should have banned Cheltenham? Why are you now so gung ho and ready to ignore the scientists? Just surprised really.

[towny44]

We’d be off tomorrow if we could. We have a lot of life still left to live and not a lot of time left to live it.

I'm with you QB. As soon as the government tells us it is safe, we are out of here (naturally following government advice). Our anti-bodies will be at peak performance before the end of April - so I have my bucket and spade packed and ready to go.

Still hoping that our Sep trip on Azura gets the go ahead (booked in 2019).


PS: In any other situation we would have been flying back from Dubai today after 2 weeks on Oceana. Going to miss that ship.

I thought P&O had already cancelled all normal sailings until the end of September?

[Manoverboard]

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[Kendhni]

We’d be off tomorrow if we could. We have a lot of life still left to live and not a lot of time left to live it.

I'm with you QB. As soon as the government tells us it is safe, we are out of here (naturally following government advice). Our anti-bodies will be at peak performance before the end of April - so I have my bucket and spade packed and ready to go.

Still hoping that our Sep trip on Azura gets the go ahead (booked in 2019).


PS: In any other situation we would have been flying back from Dubai today after 2 weeks on Oceana. Going to miss that ship.

I thought P&O had already cancelled all normal sailings until the end of September?

AT the minute it seems to be up to end of August for most ships ... only Brittania and Iona have been cancelled up to the end of September (probably because they are doing the staycation sail to nowhere trips)

[Stephen]

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