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Driving back to UK

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:43pm
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Tom11

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Location: Casares

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I have booked and am scheduled to return to U.K. next Thursday 19th March from Costa Del Sol in my car via Eurotunnel, is there likely to be any restrictions stopping me from driving up the Spanish motorways into France and onto UK. I am sure many Northern European people maybe planning to return to their respective countries, e.g. France, Netherlands, Germany, etc, during course of next week or so.

Bern

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 5:19pm

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Location: Elviria

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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 5:19pm

Hi, we are in a similar situation. On holiday in Elviria and due to drive back to Santander for the ferry on 28 March. Wondering how the drive will be affected by the lockdown.

marrissel

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:17am

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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:17am

A lot of countries are closing their borders like Austria nad Germany. Best to check before going anywhere

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Ian4mor

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:01am

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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:01am

Bern wrote on Sun Mar 15, 2020 5:19pm:

Hi, we are in a similar situation. On holiday in Elviria and due to drive back to Santander for the ferry on 28 March. Wondering how the drive will be affected by the lockdown.

check brittany ferries they have updates as to what sailing and cacelations. I needed to go back to Spain , But who knows when things will work out. All the to you all Ian part time Almogia.

Bern

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:18am

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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:18am

Ian4mor wrote on Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:01am:

check brittany ferries they have updates as to what sailing and cacelations. I needed to go back to Spain , But who knows when things will work out. All the to you all Ian part time Almogia.

Thank you for responding. We are keeping an eye on Brittany Ferries announcements and, so far, our sailing has been unaffected. Unable to get in touch with them to get an earlier crossing. 

I think we are more worried about the drive from here to Santander. I am guessing there may well be police checks making a long drive even longer. We also do the journey in 2 days (getting too old to do it in one hit). The hotel we originally booked cancelled our reservation, have now booked another but no guarantees of course. 

Take care and stay safe.

Bern

david10

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:30pm

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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:30pm

Bern wrote on Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:18am:

Thank you for responding. We are keeping an eye on Brittany Ferries announcements and, so far, our sailing has been unaffected. Unable to get in touch with them to get an earlier crossing. 

I think we are more worried about the drive from here to Santander. I am guessing there may well be police checks making a long drive even longer. We also do the journey in 2 days (getting too old to do it in one hit). The hotel we originally booked cancelled our reservation, have now booked anot...

...her but no guarantees of course. 

Take care and stay safe.

Bern

We managed to make it back to Scotland earlier this week, since then it appears that there is little but rescue flights flying. We looked at driving home (7 days ago) and were told not to bother trying it 'as the ferries would probably be off' by the time we could make a booking, at that point the earliest sailing was around the end of March. When I called back the following day I was told that they were taking no more bookings, but the plan was to honour existing bookings till the end of March. Keep trying to call, I eventually got through on the umpteenth attampt.

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