Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 5:06pm
Hi Juliet
The answer to your question is that the rules require you to be vaccinated in order to travel to Spain.
In my experience, you will always be required to provide your vaccine passport at the airport after you have passed through passport control.
You may be able to argue an exemption, however, increasingly the authorities are becoming less flexible about this.
It would be very hard to arrive at the airport and find yourself deported on the next flight back to the UK.
That is what has now happened, in Australia, to Novak Djokovic which has cost him tens of thousands of pounds and the opportunity to try to win the Australian Open this year and probably for the next 3 years.
You can try to do this but you probably have a very small likelihood of success.
If you just want to prepare your home to rent it then you can appoint a local agent to do that for you.
That is why I think that the border control authorities will not be sympathetic.
Unless you train for and obtain an HGV driving licence . . . .
People have driven through the Netherlands, then through France and on to Spain but border controls are becoming stricter.
Vaccines are not 100% safe nor are they 100% efficacious.
But, in 2022, if you want to enjoy freedom of movement from the UK to the EU the rules do require triple vaccination.
You do not have to undergo triple vaccination, however, if you do not then many doors will not open for you.
In future, there will be more SARS-CoV-2 variants and, the likelihood is that this pandemic and the restrictions it has imposed on travel, are not going to go away in the next year or two.
This may well be something, like travel restrictions post 9/11, that have not changed on 20 years and will never return to the way things once were.
Who would have believed, 20 years ago, that we would not be allowed to bring our own bottle of water onto an airliner?
Best regards
Philip