Covid19 Borders and travel updates here.

[Val]

If you have travelled add your experience here.

Just travelled 5000 km with a car to Bulgaria and back to the UK with my wife and the boxer Jimmy. It was an urgent family reasons trip and a living hell. Serbia closed the border 15th Mar Sunday evening. We took reroute via Bulgarian mountain pass Petrohan full with ice and snow. Than Vidin Dounav bridge 2. Than Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany. Germany closed the border and I took remote border crossing in the middle of nowhere Austria country roads where 2 kind German police officers took pity on me and let me through!

Based on my experience if you need to travel make sure you have a good reason and they will let you through.

There was about 1000km big 18 wheelers line in lane 1 at Austria/German motorways.

My average speed for the whole trip was 65 mph with cruising speed of 120 mph in most of Germany (and Austria/Belgium).

I've got flashed by only 2 speed cameras in Austria.
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Idiot.

[Val]

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[Tierbirdy]

Was supposed to be going on holiday beginning of April, me and some mates off to Ukraine to see Chernobyl and the likes. Been looking forward to it for the past 6 months.

Fat fucking chance of that happening now.

I think thats pretty much all the travel experiences youre going to get for the foreseeable future.

[Val]

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My parents are stuck out in Tenerife at the moment. They go out for 6 week periods and went out long before this escalated outside of China, in early February.

They were due to fly back on the 31st and Easyjet are still telling them this will happen. They tried getting on an emergency flight when Spain announced the lock down on hotels etc last week, but all were full.

Part of me hopes their flight doesn't go ahead and they sit it out on the island. The villa they're in won't have anyone else staying in it because no tourists have been coming in for over a couple of weeks now. Cases are very low and nobody is coming in, other than to fly people out.

Over there, they've been in strict lock down for the last couple of weeks and can only go out on their own (not as a couple) to buy food or medicine. Police and army are stopping everyone found walking the streets and checking they're out food or medicine buying.
The shops are one in, one out, put disposable plastic gloves on and masks and the staff are all in the same.

I just can't believe the morons over here ignoring the advice. I saw the neighbours being sensible all out having a chat, from a safe 25 feet distance apart this morning, but then later on all the relatives turned up with the kids in tow for Sunday lunch. There's unfamiliar cars parked everywhere.

We're going to be in proper lock down except key workers and food/medicine shopping very soon. The UK public, like Val, are too stupid and self centred to follow advice.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

It gets worse! 3000 miles (and how many stops?) across Europe, sneaking across closed borders to visit someone in the highest risk category. Then proclaiming it on a forum.

[Tankie]

Nuts!
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[Ste]

[Lord Percy]

Went for a trek in the Dales with my brother yesterday and we went in separate cars just to make sure we weren't breathing each other's air . (A proper trek, zero humans anywhere, it was great).

On the way there we we passed so many people in the villages treating the countryside as some kind of corona virus safety retreat zone where it all gets magically safe because... I dunno... fresh air?

Same again today as I drove over to my parent's house for a very very very fleeting visit. All the Yorkshire Dales tourist spots were pretty packed, no more or less than you'd expect for the first hot day on the first weekend of spring.

Bikers, cyclists, ramblers, families with their snot nosed kids, all in big happy groups, giving zero shits about what's going on in the rest of Europe. Absolute plebs, the lot of them.

[Val]

[Polarbear]

Why didn't you stay there in lovely euroland rather than come back to a country you detest because of Brexit?
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[bhinso]

Can I see a pie chart on this.

[Clanger]

I am not on my much needed holiday in the warm Canaries, soaking up the warm sun and recharging my batteries. No, I am in my lodgings browsing the internet wearing my warm jeans, a big fluffy fleece and long socks and furry slippers. Thankfully it has been a sunny outlook the past couple of days. I am gutted though. I couldn't go on holiday earlier because I had to finish off my college degree and the apprenticeship EPA. Now I'm finished - the virus is upon us...
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[Tankie]

Your not suffering,nor dead,and your in quite a good place ,just stay away from other people.
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[bladerunner]

A work friend of mine was in Spain 2 weeks ago and got back ok. a group of his friends were out there a week ago when Spain went into lockdown. half of them decided to say fuck it lets go out on the piss we know better ( guys about 20 yrs old). Police saw them and it was no chit chat advice, it was a baton to the face straight off. no language barrier, no checking paper work...non of that shit, just straight off physical deterrent. funny how they stopped the you cant stop us going out mentality in 0.5 seconds straight
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