I've been looking forward to another trip to Barcelona & a visit to Espanyol this time with plenty of tapas, beer & sunshine. It feels along way off, but where are others hoping to get to?
Guaranteed one thing, that when this is all over, airlines and holiday firms will absolutely hike up prices!
St Petersburg and Moscow was the plan before the pandemic killed off all our hopes and dreams.
3 nights in each.
Would also like to go to New York for the first time.
Tragically I'm in my late 20s and have never been to America!
We were booked for China in May; changed that in view of developments and booked for Peru instead. Questionable decision making!
Paignton, as usual.
we were going to fly in and out of Copenhagen but explore Norway and Sweden by ferries and trains and perhaps a hire car along the way. It is kyboshed now and we hope to get the bulk of our money back if Boris says those immortal words "I forbid you to go" although Easy Jet could be strife by late May anyway. When all this settles down I would still like to do it although as has been suggested prices will be high and I expect some places will be jammed. relatively small and somewhat selfish problem at the moment though.
Scarborough, but we may have a long wait😢🙏🕯️
We are in the final throws of getting our house ready to sell having just bought a large motor-home to go travelling for 3 or 4 years later this year! :012: :031: :dft004: Just our luck
Quote from: ScalleysDad on March 21, 2020, 09:38:21 PM
we were going to fly in and out of Copenhagen but explore Norway and Sweden by ferries and trains and perhaps a hire car along the way. It is kyboshed now and we hope to get the bulk of our money back if Boris says those immortal words "I forbid you to go" although Easy Jet could be strife by late May anyway. When all this settles down I would still like to do it although as has been suggested prices will be high and I expect some places will be jammed. relatively small and somewhat selfish problem at the moment though.
re money back, I assume that you have seen this?
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) now advises British people against all non-essential travel worldwide. This advice took effect immediately on 17 March and applies initially for a period of 30 days.
Heading to St Lucia
Was going to Thailand 2nd April so no idea now and hoping for flight money back. Possibly Spain or Greece but as above holidays in the sun will cost the earth now.
Not to a Chinese Wet Market !
Absolutely nowhere....being self employed, I appear to have been completely overlooked
Home
I've been stuck in a London hotel since 07 February and I'm not going to be able to leave anytime soon
Quote from: SP on March 21, 2020, 08:44:16 PM
I've been looking forward to another trip to Barcelona & a visit to Espanyol this time with plenty of tapas, beer & sunshine. It feels along way off, but where are others hoping to get to?
We booked to come back to blighty for two weeks in May/June, paid for almost all of it already, but now we have a level 4 travel restriction, we're in the middle of cancelling the bloody lot!
Looks like the airlines will give us a possible credit, and vacation rentals total refunds, but getting time to get back home again might prove a little harder than usual. Likely take a road trip out west and (after watching Breaking Bad, etc) visit the Painted Desert and surrounding area. I've already made the drive from Roswell to Albuquerque, and visited Las Vegas for that area.
If it's football again we maybe travel over to London and watch a team called Fulham FC. Otherwise out to the cottage on the island in the Stockholm archipelago.
Quote from: Southcoastffc on March 21, 2020, 10:01:39 PM
Quote from: ScalleysDad on March 21, 2020, 09:38:21 PM
we were going to fly in and out of Copenhagen but explore Norway and Sweden by ferries and trains and perhaps a hire car along the way. It is kyboshed now and we hope to get the bulk of our money back if Boris says those immortal words "I forbid you to go" although Easy Jet could be strife by late May anyway. When all this settles down I would still like to do it although as has been suggested prices will be high and I expect some places will be jammed. relatively small and somewhat selfish problem at the moment though.
re money back, I assume that you have seen this?
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) now advises British people against all non-essential travel worldwide. This advice took effect immediately on 17 March and applies initially for a period of 30 days.
Yup I saw this. He needs to extend it again from mid April for our cover to kick in. I think airlines closing down might be the tipping point though.It's getting less important now and things are changing for the worse daily. Our local park is being locked up today because people were having barbecues and bench coffee socials in it yesterday. Lockdown imminent I think.
Quote from: G_Gribby on March 22, 2020, 07:43:37 AM
If it's football again we maybe travel over to London and watch a team called Fulham FC. Otherwise out to the cottage on the island in the Stockholm archipelago.
I had island hopping around the archipelago on my list. Maybe next year.
Had booked Jamaica for early July, not sure about that now.
Cornwall
Quote from: whitejc on March 22, 2020, 11:21:41 AM
Cornwall
Cornwall for me as well , place called pendeen, between St Ives and Lands End on the north coast road .
Back to the UK to see our families!
I was going to the Austrian alps in July but that's not looking very likely so will probably have to defer until next year.
I think for the time being we should all stay in our home areas and not spread the disease around the UK. The long queues of grockel hutches heading into Scotland is irresponsible, as is people with second homes heading to Wales and the West Country where there are fewer hospitals. There's only one in Cornwall, for example.
Quote from: Holders on March 22, 2020, 12:13:22 PM
I was going to the Austrian alps in July but that's not looking very likely so will probably have to defer until next year.
I think for the time being we should all stay in our home areas and not spread the disease around the UK. The long queues of grockel hutches heading into Scotland is irresponsible, as is people with second homes heading to Wales and the West Country where there are fewer hospitals. There's only one in Cornwall, for example.
Yep, they should have closed the roads in and out only key workers allowed to travel outside the M25
Quote from: Dr Know on March 22, 2020, 11:31:19 AM
Quote from: whitejc on March 22, 2020, 11:21:41 AM
Cornwall
Cornwall for me as well , place called pendeen, between St Ives and Lands End on the north coast road .
Some of the best stretches of coastal footpath thereabouts. Get a pasty in St Just and wander down to Cape Cornwall, trumps Lands End for me. As Holders says there is a generally unwelcome mini invasion going on at the moment but I am sure things will settle down.
Quote from: Nero on March 22, 2020, 12:23:45 PM
Quote from: Holders on March 22, 2020, 12:13:22 PM
I was going to the Austrian alps in July but that's not looking very likely so will probably have to defer until next year.
I think for the time being we should all stay in our home areas and not spread the disease around the UK. The long queues of grockel hutches heading into Scotland is irresponsible, as is people with second homes heading to Wales and the West Country where there are fewer hospitals. There's only one in Cornwall, for example.
Yep, they should have closed the roads in and out only key workers allowed to travel outside the M25
It looks like many people need to be told what's sensible and obvious so I think it's only a matter of time before actual enforceable bans come into play. Our local park was locked up yesterday because groups were gathering for coffee socials and barbecues. Derh.
Been going down to Cornwall most years since 1976 , so been to most places . But the area between St ives and Lands End has some of the best walking paths . I've walked from St Ives to Zennor , strenuous but great views, ending up at a great pub called the Tinners arms in Zennor , I could go on but will leave it for now ,
Quote from: Nero on March 22, 2020, 12:23:45 PM
Quote from: Holders on March 22, 2020, 12:13:22 PM
I was going to the Austrian alps in July but that's not looking very likely so will probably have to defer until next year.
I think for the time being we should all stay in our home areas and not spread the disease around the UK. The long queues of grockel hutches heading into Scotland is irresponsible, as is people with second homes heading to Wales and the West Country where there are fewer hospitals. There's only one in Cornwall, for example.
Yep, they should have closed the roads in and out only key workers allowed to travel outside the M25
I don't live in London so it's easy for me to agree with that. But, maybe, in 2-3 weeks' time people will have come to regret that it wasn't done earlier.
Here in Devon, so many people are still in total denial. My partner spoke to her niece this morning, she works in ICU in Plymouth. They're coping at the moment but quite aware of what is to come. She went to Tesco after her shift and, like the girl in the video, found the shelves bare.
Quote from: ScalleysDad on March 22, 2020, 12:26:47 PM
Quote from: Dr Know on March 22, 2020, 11:31:19 AM
Quote from: whitejc on March 22, 2020, 11:21:41 AM
Cornwall
Cornwall for me as well , place called pendeen, between St Ives and Lands End on the north coast road .
Some of the best stretches of coastal footpath thereabouts. Get a pasty in St Just and wander down to Cape Cornwall, trumps Lands End for me. As Holders says there is a generally unwelcome mini invasion going on at the moment but I am sure things will settle down.
Have you tried the coast path further east towards the Devon border? Speke's Mill/Tidna/Marsland/Welcombe/ Hartland etc? My own favourite is Bolt Tail to Bolt Head and on round Start Point but that's S. Devon not Cornwall.
Quote from: Holders on March 22, 2020, 12:13:22 PM
I was going to the Austrian alps in July but that's not looking very likely so will probably have to defer until next year.
I think for the time being we should all stay in our home areas and not spread the disease around the UK. The long queues of grockel hutches heading into Scotland is irresponsible, as is people with second homes heading to Wales and the West Country where there are fewer hospitals. There's only one in Cornwall, for example.
My youngest son and his family live in Pembrokeshire and say holiday makers are still arriving in their numbers much to their dismay.. .
I was going majorca for a week early June hoping BA will let us use tickets later on. What I'm really concerned about is my yearly pilgrimage to Maine and New Hampshire for the fall in early October been the last 18 years on the bounce but it's looking dodgy this year.
Just an additional on - not abiding by the current advice being given is actually gambling with you life, well for me at 74 it is so I am where I'm staying at home.
Quote from: Southcoastffc on March 21, 2020, 09:25:51 PM
We were booked for China in May; changed that in view of developments and booked for Peru instead. Questionable decision making!
Peru is lovely though!
Where exactly you heading?
When all this ends I will be travelling the country watching as much football as I can.
Already planning going Wigan, Leeds, West Brom and Forest with Fulham, and then Wingate & Finchley, southend, Sutton United, Braintree, chelmsford, St Albans, Hemel Hempstead, spurs again, man united.. all in best case scenario of course)
Fulhamfan666. - Well, we WERE going to travel a bit, Lima, Mach Pichu, Cusco, Sacred Valley, Puno, Titicaca, Colca Canyon, Arequipa. But who knows now when we'll get there. One day! Seems as though you know it?
Quote from: Fulham 442 on March 22, 2020, 12:48:23 PM
Quote from: Holders on March 22, 2020, 12:13:22 PM
I was going to the Austrian alps in July but that's not looking very likely so will probably have to defer until next year.
I think for the time being we should all stay in our home areas and not spread the disease around the UK. The long queues of grockel hutches heading into Scotland is irresponsible, as is people with second homes heading to Wales and the West Country where there are fewer hospitals. There's only one in Cornwall, for example.
My youngest son and his family live in Pembrokeshire and say holiday makers are still arriving in their numbers much to their dismay.. .
It's just irresponsible.
When things have calmed down and it's safe to travel again, I'm gonna take a trip to Torquay, England. Book a room there. Hope to see, even just from my room view, Sydney Opera House, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically. Ideally, Krakatoa won't be erupting during my stay.
A lot of people won't be able to go anywhere since they haven't been able to work and get a pay check.
Quote from: Holders on March 22, 2020, 12:45:43 PM
Quote from: ScalleysDad on March 22, 2020, 12:26:47 PM
Quote from: Dr Know on March 22, 2020, 11:31:19 AM
Quote from: whitejc on March 22, 2020, 11:21:41 AM
Cornwall
Cornwall for me as well , place called pendeen, between St Ives and Lands End on the north coast road .
Some of the best stretches of coastal footpath thereabouts. Get a pasty in St Just and wander down to Cape Cornwall, trumps Lands End for me. As Holders says there is a generally unwelcome mini invasion going on at the moment but I am sure things will settle down.
Have you tried the coast path further east towards the Devon border? Speke's Mill/Tidna/Marsland/Welcombe/ Hartland etc? My own favourite is Bolt Tail to Bolt Head and on round Start Point but that's S. Devon not Cornwall.
Yup. I did the whole south west coast footpath a while ago and will gladly, but much slower, do big chunks of it again given the chance. The Salcombe area is very nice and on a good day Port Isaac all the way round to Newquay is the bizzness. Exeter to Lyme Regis is a bit dull but then you have Golden Cap to Weymouth and onto Kimmeridge. You have mentioned Hartland damn you. The minute the current unpleasantness is over I must do Hartland to Bude again but this time with a flask.
Scalley , you must have gone through a village called Porthallow , which is the exact halfway point of the sw path , talk about being out of the way , stayed there couple of years ago , a few houses and a pub . Walked from there northwards to the Helford river , lovely with a great pub called the shipwrights , can't wait to go back , happy days .
Quote from: Dr Know on March 22, 2020, 08:02:13 PM
Scalley , you must have gone through a village called Porthallow , which is the exact halfway point of the sw path , talk about being out of the way , stayed there couple of years ago , a few houses and a pub . Walked from there northwards to the Helford river , lovely with a great pub called the shipwrights , can't wait to go back , happy days .
Indeed some great pubs along the way. I stayed in a few and had a resuscitating pint in a few more. I wish I had kept a diary of such things but I did make a point of photographing the lifeboat stations along the route. You got me thinking now. The Guinness at St Mawes waiting for the ferry springs to mind.
A return trip to Sanity.....
Just over 20 years ago the firm I was working for were a bit down on orders so asked if those with holiday could take it asap.
The Mrs and I asked the girls 9 and 4 what they'd like to see if we could drive anywhere. They had a little conflab and decided on Brookside and Spaghetti Junction. So we booked several Travel Lodges
Drove in and around Spaghetti Junction, found a small estate that looked like the set of Brookside (daughter no2 was happy) checked out the sites of Liverpool, all.three.of them. Stayed the first night in Southport and then worked our way up the coast. Made our way up the coast through Preston, Morecombe, the lakes, the fells, Hadrian's Wall, Newcastle and the Angel of the North (just finished). Then down the other side. Hi light for the Mrs was the Lake District for me it was all the really nice people we met and the girls? We asked them when we got back. Another conflab and it was The McDonald's Breakfasts!
Wasn't planning a holiday this year but would like to repeat the idea. This time it will just be me. Destinations will have to have an Art Gallery close by. Hopefully the Country will be getting back on its feet and a few quid from me isn't going.to change much.but it's a start.
Quote from: whitejc on March 22, 2020, 11:21:41 AM
Cornwall
No don´t everybody is coming down here at the moment, the safest place is to stay at home (at least for us living in Cornwall)!
Quote from: ron on March 22, 2020, 09:12:50 PM
A return trip to Sanity.....
The travel to that place might be oversubscribed, panic buying!
Quote from: Dr Know on March 22, 2020, 11:31:19 AM
Quote from: whitejc on March 22, 2020, 11:21:41 AM
Cornwall
Cornwall for me as well , place called pendeen, between St Ives and Lands End on the north coast road .
Sorry you won´t be welcome either (lol)!
Quote from: love4ffc on March 22, 2020, 05:11:38 PM
A lot of people won't be able to go anywhere since they haven't been able to work and get a pay check.
Yeah but many have to have something to look forward to, maybe the Governments will provide a financial package for that?
Booked flights from Boston to London mid May....Off to Scotland for family reunion, back south via a few days in the lake district. A whole month planned, down the swanee now. Just have to postpone it I guess.
Quote from: WindyCity on March 22, 2020, 05:09:35 PM
When things have calmed down and it's safe to travel again, I'm gonna take a trip to Torquay, England. Book a room there. Hope to see, even just from my room view, Sydney Opera House, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically. Ideally, Krakatoa won't be erupting during my stay.
Will you have a room with a bath?
Quote from: Milo on March 23, 2020, 12:49:24 AM
Quote from: WindyCity on March 22, 2020, 05:09:35 PM
When things have calmed down and it's safe to travel again, I'm gonna take a trip to Torquay, England. Book a room there. Hope to see, even just from my room view, Sydney Opera House, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically. Ideally, Krakatoa won't be erupting during my stay.
Will you have a room with a bath?
Oh yes. But I will insist it at least be big enough to drown a mouse or two......
My inlaws in Edinburgh. We were supposed to up for the week last Sunday but cancelled it because of the Virus as they are elderly
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When and I say when this is all over expect some travel bargains by anybody still operating.
Back in the early 90's I got a great deal to Australia as companies were trying to get people to travel after the gulf war. I would expect the same to happen
Quote from: ScalleysDad on March 22, 2020, 09:56:09 AM
Quote from: G_Gribby on March 22, 2020, 07:43:37 AM
If it's football again we maybe travel over to London and watch a team called Fulham FC. Otherwise out to the cottage on the island in the Stockholm archipelago.
I had island hopping around the archipelago on my list. Maybe next year.
You are then invited. Just let me know when it's happens.
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Quote from: jarv on March 22, 2020, 10:01:02 PM
Booked flights from Boston to London mid May....Off to Scotland for family reunion, back south via a few days in the lake district. A whole month planned, down the swanee now. Just have to postpone it I guess.
We're the same, a week after you by the looks of it, Chicago>LHR, though unless this L4 is reduced to a Level 2, the misses won't be allowed to travel unless she wants to lose her job, her firm doesn't allow it, so we're holding on at the moment hoping it doesn't get worse here.
Quote from: WindyCity on March 23, 2020, 02:20:37 AM
Quote from: Milo on March 23, 2020, 12:49:24 AM
Quote from: WindyCity on March 22, 2020, 05:09:35 PM
When things have calmed down and it's safe to travel again, I'm gonna take a trip to Torquay, England. Book a room there. Hope to see, even just from my room view, Sydney Opera House, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically. Ideally, Krakatoa won't be erupting during my stay.
Will you have a room with a bath?
Oh yes. But I will insist it at least be big enough to drown a mouse or two......
... but avoid the Waldorf salad, and the cheese & biscuits tin!
Quote from: Southcoastffc on March 22, 2020, 01:28:21 PM
Fulhamfan666. - Well, we WERE going to travel a bit, Lima, Mach Pichu, Cusco, Sacred Valley, Puno, Titicaca, Colca Canyon, Arequipa. But who knows now when we'll get there. One day! Seems as though you know it?
Wow that sounds amazing!
I went a couple of years ago with my family (Lima, Cusco, Ollantaytambo, Colca, Agues Calientes, Arequipa and Machu Pichu) and it was pretty surreal!
Definitely worth it!
A visit to St. Johann in Austria like every year.
Somewhere without the kids. Anywhere don't care. Just without the kids
Quote from: David Allen Crankshaw on March 24, 2020, 11:45:29 AM
A visit to St. Johann in Austria like every year.
Tirol, presumably, not Pongau. We're booked to go to Rauris. However...
I purchased my wife a world map.... gave her a dart and said "throw this and wherever it lands I'm taking you for a holiday when this pandemic is over".
Turns out we're spending two weeks behind the fridge.
Let's be honest about it some of us may not ever again be going on holiday or even watching another football match. Good luck everyone
Have rebooked our trip to Japan ( cancelled this spring ) for October 2021 ( if it is over by then )
Quote from: Andy S on March 26, 2020, 12:42:26 AM
Let's be honest about it some of us may not ever again be going on holiday or even watching another football match. Good luck everyone
I thought that too Andy , I honestly think there"ll be no holiday for a very very long time , and I at 74 wonder if I'll ever get the chance to take one. This big worry is this virus is affecting many different people and very different ways..slightly off the main topic I just been watching question time and turned over due the mud slinging amongst what are supposed to be leading people. It's untrod territory specialist are finding out more each day.
Sharm -El- Sheik!
Quote from: Jimsbeerbelly on March 21, 2020, 08:51:01 PM
Guaranteed one thing, that when this is all over, airlines and holiday firms will absolutely hike up prices!
Absolutely, and the voucher they have given you for the cancelled holiday will be woefully short requiring you to pay more. I will be holding out for a refund which should be fun.
Then when you try to book you and everyone else will be doing the same with the provider putting up prices.
Will definitely be heading back to Blighty to see the family, especially as I have been told today I will be a second time Grandma later this year. Really missing my family and all their imminent visits here obviously wiped out for the foreseeable. CV affecting us all greatly in all sorts of ways. Just hope we can start to see an end to this all soon but I'm not hopeful.
Isle of Anglesey
Always wanted to go there
Quote from: sunburywhite on March 27, 2020, 07:41:44 PM
Isle of Anglesey
Always wanted to go there
Not as good as I thought it might be..no forests and flat and boring as I remember.
I had planned a big family Holiday to Turkey in the summer.. I hope it still is on...
Looking forward to 2 weeks in the pub🍺🍺
Have flights to blighty for a month, north and west of Scotland, Lake district and Hampshire.. Cancelled now. B & Bs are closed to the decision was taken out of my hands.
Hope to reschedule when football season restarts.
