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Old Jul 9th 2020, 9:32 pm
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Hi All,
My cousin, his wife and my brother plan to drive over from UK to see us. I understand the voluntary 14 day quarantine rule here, but they have asked if France has any restrictions on family relations making a social bubble and traveling together by car, as in UK. I haven't been able to find anything specific on the internet about this and assume they will be fine to come over. Has anyone read anything definitive either way?
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Old Jul 10th 2020, 7:29 am
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I think "bubbles" are a UK thing.
I suppose they're a good idea in that they make people think about who they socialise with, but really it all seems a bit daft. I went back to the place I used to work yesterday to collect my belongings from my accommodation. One of my ex colleagues is still working there. So was I allowed to sit in the office and chat with him? Probably not, because we're not in a bubble. And yet, if I'd still been employed by the company, it would have been fine for both of us to be in the office all day every day. And in a sense I was there as a work colleague because I was handing back keys, opening work related post that had arrived with my name on it and nobody had opened in case it was personal, etc .

This is the best place for info https://www.gouvernement.fr/info-cor...-S-[covid] and from a quick glance it appear that if your department is green there are very few restrictions. Take precautions around vulnerable people and don't gather in groups of more than 10 in a public place, seems to be about it on the social side. France is far ahead of the UK in getting back to normal I think.
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Old Jul 10th 2020, 8:14 am
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Thanks EuroTrash, from everything I've read and living in a 'green zone' they can safely come for a visit. How they get here is another matter. We're off to UK next week in the car and planned to come back on the 12th August. Then I discovered all of the Dover to Calais/Dunkirk ferries are fully booked, every sailing 24 hours a day, for days either side of our plans. We managed to get on the Newhaven to Dieppe ferry on the 12th. Expect a deluge of Brits in August.
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Old Jul 10th 2020, 8:43 am
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I wouldn't use a ferry in any case at the moment - too many people in a confined space breathing the same air for too long. Call me paranoid but I prefer to take no chances when there's an alternative.
I'm planning to use the tunnel even though I hate it (I'm a bit claustrophobic and I get panic attacks) and it means a longer drive. I can stay in my own car and it's a shorter crossing. Tickets seem to be available on most if not all crossings and recent reports suggest that at present the service is very under used, the trains are running half empty.
I suspect the ferries aren't fully booked but are not in fact running a full timetable but don't want to publicise the fact.
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